Indian's House
The next stop is a place not so known in Córdoba, but I am sure y
ou have heard about it sometime. The Indian's House is known as Ceas’ House too, because it belonged to this family during a lot of years, it was the dwell of many cordovan politicians after the conquest of the city.
It is situated in Ángel de Torres Square, situated close to the ancient part of the city, very close to the Jewish Quarter.
The name was given when Juan Cosme Paniagua travelled to America, and since his return he was called "the Indian".
Unfortunately we don‘t know exactly how was the house, only the external façade of the XV century, represents one of the most important example of the mudejar art. Nowadays the façade leads to the known "Indian street", a narrow street full of renewed
buildings.
The façade has only four arches, the main entrance is the most important. The main entrance has a shouldered arch with voussoirs, with typical ribbon and sebka decorations. There are four blind polylobulated arches. The complex is ended by three narrow geometrical strips.
On the links there is a double window covered by polilobulated arches that are crossed and create blind spaces. The arches are
put on plain little columns with basis and corinth capital. The wall is decorated with geometrical elements and sebka boards again.
In the second part, and in line with the two windows above, there are gothic windows, with similar characteristics, but in this case the mudejar decoration gives way to a more gothic style. The windows are double and the balustrade is the part where the little columns are put. On the little columns there are the Roman arches, decorated with floral and geometrical decoration.
Rafael Ramírez de Arellano, son of Teodomiro Rámirez, said that the sticks that decorates the façade in the second part were ended with pinnacles and those disappeared when Mateo Inurria Lainosa restored the façade in the last century.
ou have heard about it sometime. The Indian's House is known as Ceas’ House too, because it belonged to this family during a lot of years, it was the dwell of many cordovan politicians after the conquest of the city.
It is situated in Ángel de Torres Square, situated close to the ancient part of the city, very close to the Jewish Quarter.
The name was given when Juan Cosme Paniagua travelled to America, and since his return he was called "the Indian".
Unfortunately we don‘t know exactly how was the house, only the external façade of the XV century, represents one of the most important example of the mudejar art. Nowadays the façade leads to the known "Indian street", a narrow street full of renewed
buildings.
The façade has only four arches, the main entrance is the most important. The main entrance has a shouldered arch with voussoirs, with typical ribbon and sebka decorations. There are four blind polylobulated arches. The complex is ended by three narrow geometrical strips.
On the links there is a double window covered by polilobulated arches that are crossed and create blind spaces. The arches are
put on plain little columns with basis and corinth capital. The wall is decorated with geometrical elements and sebka boards again.
In the second part, and in line with the two windows above, there are gothic windows, with similar characteristics, but in this case the mudejar decoration gives way to a more gothic style. The windows are double and the balustrade is the part where the little columns are put. On the little columns there are the Roman arches, decorated with floral and geometrical decoration.
Rafael Ramírez de Arellano, son of Teodomiro Rámirez, said that the sticks that decorates the façade in the second part were ended with pinnacles and those disappeared when Mateo Inurria Lainosa restored the façade in the last century.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba