Goyeneche Palace

In Colmenar limestone, Goyeneche decided to adapt an old country house to erect the Palace where he would reside and from where he would direct the industrial complex of Nuevo Baztán, pursuing his dream of an advanced industrial and functional town ahead of its time. 

With a square floor plan and distributed over two floors around a central courtyard, the Palace is characterized by its sobriety and functionality, with hardly any concessions to the ornamental and decorative. As an exception, there are the banded moldings framing the openings and the decoration around the main balcony, supported by vegetal scrolls and cut-out plaques, and topped by a large coat of arms from a later period, belonging to his second son Francisco Miguel. 

Below the balcony, the head of a lion, with the heraldic checkered pattern of the Baztán Valley that recalls Goyeneche's Navarrese origin between its jaws, tops the lintel of the door along with two angular heads representing Bacchus and Ceres. 

Finally, the left part of the complex is closed with a tower crowned with balusters and balls of Herrerian characteristics. 

The interior of the palace is not open to visitors, only the exhibition rooms, the tourist office, and the first interior courtyard marked by semicircular arches. On the upper floor were the noble rooms, thus giving it the qualification of a Palace, directly connected to the church's gallery.