Vast urban space also devoted during much time to Marché, and conclusions of marriages between noble the cacereños. Also there to the Kings in its visits, and was place of right. In this place we find several buildings singular:
1º. - The Temple of Sta. María la Mayor: Named Concatedral in 1957. Its style is Romance of transition to what is Gothic, but with marks from the rebirth in its chorus and its tower from three bodies. This tower places in its lower part a recent statue of bronze of the “hervacense” sculptor Enrique Pérez Comendador. The interior of the temple places noble burials cacereños. It has beautiful picture windows with rivet washers and ejector rods which decorate the apse. The best of this temple is the challengeable of the larger hood, 1551, is style protorenacentista, of work of Balduque Castling and Shoeing Guillén, cut out of wood of cedar. It is certain that it does not miss that you stop observing to see the storks that cover their turn, they are the queens of the old part, its nests are by all parts, and we can hear them, by making its "gazpachos" at the time of zeal.
2º. - Vis-à-vis with what is Concatedral we find the Episcopal Palace, of Renaissance frontage, ordered to build by the bishop of Coria, D García de Galarza, in him one lodged Felipe II on its return of Portugal. In the kidneys of vault of the gate of the palate two medallions which represent of the exotic beings: Is and Occident, which is old and the new world.
3º. - With this palate we find another of Renaissance style of ends of 15th century called of Hernando d'Ovando Palace, brother of Fray Nicolás d' Ovando, first governor of the Spaniard and Comendador of the Santiago Order which took share with Kings Catholics the catch of Grenade.
4º. - into Holy Mª we find also the Mayoralgo Palace, with a beautiful frontage of the 16th century, with windows germinated and the beautiful shield of the family. One recently finished his readjustment and the result is splendid. This frontage was seriously affected by the air raid which took place in July 1937.
5º. - And vis-à-vis with that of Mayoralgo, the Provincial Palace, today seat of the Delegation of Cáceres, that which equips in its frontage with the foreign official receptions, since its gate, frame the windows, shield and cornice, do not belong to him, but come from disappeared Seminaries from Galarza, and which were put here in 1965.
6º. - But we are now with another emblematic building of Cáceres: The Golfines De Abajo Palace, of a building with personality, is the triumph of Plateresc in architecture cacereña. It was built at the time Enrique IV, like Fortress house, with a large tower which would be cut like the others by order of Isabel the Catholic, but who still preserves the balconies which defended its side. One second reform in it raised the beautiful principal frontage during the year 1534, by underlining in it a beautiful dividing line to the end. It is obligatory for the visitor to admire the beautiful filigree which is worked in this dividing line if we hold account of the hardness of the granite in which it is made. Take into account a simply decorative body leaving with an inscription in which it is read: This one is the House of Golfines.
In the origin of the surname Golfín, much wanted to mean past of not very correct actions, but it is not more than one surname originating in France or Catalonia. This palate was housing of Kings Catholics on several occasions. One of the inhabitants of this house: Sancho de Parois Golfín, was waiter the Queen and the witness in his will.
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