Palacio de Sobrellano

The Palacio de Sobrellano is a palace or monumental manor house in Comillas (Cantabria), conceived as the summer residence of the 1st Marquis of Comillas, Antonio López y López. It is located in the monumental environment of Sobrellano, on the outskirts of the historic center, in an enclave closely linked to the rise of the town in the nineteenth century. Its construction took place between 1882 and 1888, under the design of the architect Joan Martorell, with Cristóbal Cascante as project manager. The building responds to the neo-Gothic style, with references to English civil Gothic and Venetian-flavored solutions, as well as decorative elements of Muslim inspiration in some reliefs. The palace stands out for its rectangular floor plan, its facade of great ornamental apparatus and the quality of its interior decoration, where furniture and paintings linked to artists and collaborators of the Catalan modernist circle, such as Camilo Oliveras, Juan Roig and Eduardo Llorens, are documented. It was part of an aristocratic ensemble designed to represent the social prestige of the marquis and his family in Comillas. It is currently a monument that can be visited by guided tour and belongs to the cultural heritage of Cantabria. Its tourist interest lies both in its architectural value and in the historical-artistic ensemble that it forms with the Sobrellano Chapel-Pantheon.