House-palace of Juan Jédler

The Fúcares Palace, or more precisely, the Palace House of Juan Jédler was considered for a long time the palace that the Fúcares built for themselves in Almagro; later it was considered their warehouse. But this building had too few comforts to be the residence of the richest family in Europe and too many luxuries to be a simple warehouse. Today we know that it was the home of one of the factors -or employees- that the Fúcares sent to Almagro: Juan Jédler. This 16th century building is conceived as a large mansion, with a brick, mud and masonry façade in the Toledan style and whose current door was added in the 17th century, giving access to the vestibule with vaults decorated with plasterwork that communicates directly with the patio, which together with that of the Convent of the Assumption are the most interesting examples of Almagro's Renaissance. The patio has a square floor plan with Tuscan columns supporting semicircular arches. Its ample rooms are crowned with rich coffered ceilings. It was the private home of the Bringas family, later a tenement house, a lace factory, a school... and nowadays it houses the Universidad Popular, a municipal socio-cultural training center since 1984.