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Town Hall of San Clemente

San Clemente, La Mancha Conquense, Cuenca

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Town Hall of San Clemente

Historical milestone · San Clemente, La Mancha Conquense, Cuenca

The town hall of San Clemente is a Renaissance building, in the line of pure classicism, begun in 1566 to designs by the architect Domingo de Zalvide and completed in 1622; its construction has also been linked to the master stonemason Andrés de Vandelvira, who is thought to have acted as designer. Rectangular in plan and set on a corner, it has two storeys and a tower crowned by a large royal coat of arms of the Habsburgs. Its arcaded façade, which in its day was fully porticoed, presides over the plaza Mayor and forms one of the best-preserved Renaissance civil ensembles in the province of Cuenca; San Clemente was declared a historic-artistic site in 1980, and the building, Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), in 1992.

1566-1622

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