Palacio de la Salina

Today: Palacio de la Salina (Diputación Provincial), Salamanca

Place: Salamanca
Kind: Palace
Built: 1538
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A Plateresque palace with Italian elements, built in 1538 with Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón as architect, for Rodrigo de Messía Carrillo; it later passed to his son Juan Alonso de Fonseca, hence the Fonseca arms on the façade. It takes its name from having housed the salt monopoly, until 1870. Since 1884 it has been the seat of the Diputación Provincial, which bought it in 1881.

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