House of the Cornejo family. House of Culture · Ciudad Rodrigo (EN)

Possibly its promoters were descendants of Moctezuma but the coats of arms that it shows belong to the Cornejo family. With three floors, it was built at the end of the XVI century or at the beginning of the XVII century. Its decoration is reduced to the minimum elements, following the austere Herrerian style and concentrating on the façade. The façade has a linteled doorway with a balcony topped by a triangular pediment with a coat of arms. In the vestibule an inscription can be seen that testifies its phase as House of the Land or of the Sexmeros. Subsequently, in 1928 it became a Secondary School, later a School of Trades, the headquarters of a radio station and, since 1984, inaugurated by the King and Queen, a Municipal House of Culture (with a library and exhibition hall).