Palace Vela of the Cobos

Really close to the Palace Vázquez de Molina, the Renaissance style Palace Vela de los Cobos is placed. Even if it is a private property run by the Sabater family since 1873, you can visit it making an appointment.

It is worth to see this building because it is a palace from the XVI century preserved in mint conditions not only the architectural part, but also the furniture, the sculptures and the paintings. Moreover, it has an important library and a historic files and also porcelain, ceramics, old clothes and numismatics collections.

This palace is other masterpiece of Andrés de Vandelvira, which was ordered to be constructed in the middle of the XVI century by the councilor Francisco Vela de los Cobos. The material execution was made by the stonemason Jorge Leal.

Without a doubt, you will be surprised by its façade where you can observe, in its first body, a linteled door between Corinthian columns and, on top of it, there are two warriors sculptures which are holding the coat of arms of the developer Francisco Vela de los Cobos. On the second body, there are balconies with columns finished by an entablature and pediment, decorated with wrought iron handrail. On the highest body, there is a gallery of columns supported by pilasters.

Inside the palace you will find a covered central courtyard. Around it, there are placed the rest of spaces of the house. The main staircase should be pointed out and the big hall, but also the dining room, dinette room, the desk, the study and the Elizabethan bedroom. You cannot miss the eagle form lamp placed in one of its rooms because there are only two in Úbeda (the one of the Palace of the Deán Ortega and the other of the Hotel-Palace of the Marqués de la Rambla).

The building was declared Historic National Monument in 1955.