Palacio de Arrieta-Maestu

Today: Palacio de Bendaña, Vitoria

Place: Vitoria
Kind: Palace
Built: 1525 to 1560
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The palace of Arrieta-Maestu, which Juan López de Arrieta had built in 1525 on the site of the medieval tower of the Maestu family and whose works went on until about 1560. It is a three-storey ashlar building, fully Renaissance in the courtyard galleries, with a cylindrical turret on the façade and some remains of the medieval tower visible from outside. In 1886 it was sold by the marqués de Bendaña, from whom it takes its present name, and since 1994 it has housed the Museo Fournier de Naipes de Álava.

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