Casa de Pilatos (House of Pilate)
Chapter 11/12 · Sevilla
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The Casa de Pilatos is a palace that blends the Mudéjar style with the Italian Renaissance, and today it belongs to the House of Medinaceli. It began with some houses bought in 1483 by Pedro Enríquez and his wife, Catalina de Ribera.
Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera, first Marquis of Tarifa, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem between 1518 and 1520. There he noticed that the distance between the place pointed out to him as Pilate's praetorium and Mount Calvary was the same as between his palace and the Cruz del Campo, a small shrine from 1482. On his return he created a Way of the Cross with twelve stations between the two points. The first station, next to the palace, recalled Jesus leaving Pilate's house, and by the 18th century the building was already known as the Casa de Pilatos, Pilate's House.
Its courtyards and halls are covered with tiles made in Triana between 1536 and 1539: in 1538 the potters Diego and Juan Pulido undertook to deliver 2,000 tiles a week. Now we walk back through the streets of the centre to the Giralda.
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