House of Pilatos

Nieves, your tour guide for Seville, Cádiz and Córdoba will accompany you on such an outstanding tour explaining all the details of this famous monument, its main historical features and more than a nice anecdote. You can book a visit only to this place or include it in any of the guided tours that Nieves, your guide offers you.

The largest noble palace in Seville and one of the most beautiful in Spain, it was built between the end of the 15th century and a large part of the 16th century and is a masterpiece of the Sevillian Renaissance. The numerous Mudejar features that blend in its decoration and the traces of its Gothic beginnings, especially present in the private chapel, contribute to its beauty.

The palace is the work of one of the leading noble families of Seville, the Enríquez de Ribera, one of whose members introduced into the city the taste for the Renaissance style he had learned on his trip to the Holy Land, when he walked to Jerusalem he stopped months in the flourishing Italy of the Cinquecento. His fortune was used to buy Roman marbles and antiquities and to bring from Italy the architect who would transform the Gothic palace into the best example of Sevillian Renaissance private architecture. His nephew and successor would continue to embellish the family palace with new contributions brought from the Italian peninsula. The concept of a house museum where integrating and exhibiting the collection of Roman antiquities set a precedent among the noble families of the city.