Sobrellano Palace

The Sobrellano complex, which began with the chapel-pantheon, was completed with the work on the palace. In 1888 the palace of Sobrellano was inaugurated, in which different trends were collected, ranging from English civil Gothic to the memory of Venetian palaces, through a treatment of the reliefs close to the Muslim muqarnas. In any case, the structure of the building is not very Gothic. The simple Palladian scheme (with a central hall distributor and monumental staircase of white marble, with double shot and zenithal illumination by a skylight of polychrome stained glass) generates an almost perfect parallelepiped, barely broken by recesses. Such a monotonous scheme is broken by ornamentation, generous on the main façade, while on the entrance façade it is more restrained. This palace is actually a space to be shown, a space of apparatus loaded with objects and elements that reflected the personality of the Marquises of Comillas. The great hall was conceived as the symbolic center of the palace, decorated with eight panels painted by Eduardo Llorens, showing the contributions that the Marquis' family had made to the recent history of Spain.