The Palaces of Fontes and de las Brasas - murcia car hire

The second half of the XVII and the whole of the XVIII century were times of splendour and growth for Murcia. Despite the upheavals in the Spanish empire and the internal wars, the Region experienced a period of changes and progress, accompanied by an increase in the population the advancement of the arts and humanities, and a notable improvement of the economy.

Among the civil monuments of the time, is the Puente Viejo, built by Toribio Martinez de la Vega, who would also build the façade of the la Fuensanta sanctuary. In 1705 he built the palaces of Fontes and de las Brasas, both in the squares named after them, constructed folloqing the preferences of the period, with bricks rendered in plaster and later painted in red and white. Also the Almudí nowadays the Art Centre of Murcia City Council.

This palace was originally conceived as a grain warehouse and a place for commercial transactions, It was destroyed by lightning in 1612, and was rebuilt in 1628. The relief of a matron in the façade, by Hernando de Torquemada, is part of the iriginal façade.