Hoy, 3 de December de 2024
The cultural visit of the Chapel opens from
10:00 to 14:30h and 16:00 to 19:00h
Chapel of the Saviour
Úbeda, Jaén
This free-standing chapel, pantheon of Francisco de los Cobos, universal secretary of Emperor Charles V.is a masterpiece of Diego de Siloé which articulates an ambitious monumental ensemble that also includes a palace, which the imperial architect Luis de Vega rebuilt, and a Hospital, the Hospital de los Honrados Viejos del Salvador, built by Andrés de Vandelvira. Its construction initiated the redevelopment of the Llano de Santa María, an area now known as the "Llano de Santa María". Vázquez de Molina square, the centrepiece of Úbeda's declaration as a World Heritage SiteThe Imperial secretary and his relatives conceived this temple as an urban framework in which to stage, with the universal language of the new architecture ".the old-fashioned wayThe "Renaissance", which today we call Renaissance, the vertiginous social rise of his lineage.