House of the Four Streets or House of the Miranda Ocampo family · Ciudad Rodrigo (EN)

First solar house of the Miranda family, as the coats of arms testify, it was built in the XVI century. It was sold to the Cathedral Chapter in 1700, arriving in the twentieth century in a very poor state of preservation. Thanks to Lorenzo González Iglesias its restoration began in 1948. The most outstanding feature is the doorway open at an angle to the four streets, hence its name. It is framed by an entablature on half-columns arranged in deviation (deviated with respect to the façade to maintain the perspective). Over the door, barely, one can read an inscription in Latin that translates as "O Death, you alone are the rest from the labors of this mortal life".