Goyeneche Palace

Designed as the founder's residence, the palace occupies the left side of the front. With a square floor plan, it has two floors. The palace is characterized by its sobriety, alien to everything characteristically defined as "churrigueresque" with hardly any concessions to the ornamental and decorative, except for the sturdy beadings that frame the openings and the decoration that helps to support the main balcony, by force of vegetal scrolls, cut plates and the head of a lion with the heraldic chess of the Baztan Valley between its jaws. The branch that crosses the Main Square to the house located in front of the tower, having exit for the same one, calls the attention. The left side of the complex is closed with a tower crowned with balusters and balls of Herrera characteristics, a personal contribution of Churriguera known for his admiration for the art of Juan de Herrera, builder of the Escorial Monastery. Its square structure seems to guard the entire Palace on the left side and there is no symmetry in the tower with the towers of the temple and those located on the main facade. All this gives an air of solemnity to the church building.