{"id":12649,"date":"2022-09-30T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.territoriomudejar.es\/patrimonio\/papa-luna-palace-illueca\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:09:16","slug":"papa-luna-palace-illueca","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.territoriomudejar.es\/en\/patrimonio\/papa-luna-palace-illueca\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa Luna Palace, Illueca"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\r\nTYPE OF ASSET:<\/strong> Property

\r\nCATEGORY:<\/strong> Religious

\r\nARCHITECTURAL STYLE:<\/strong> Mudejar

\r\nCONSTRUCTION DATE:<\/strong> Beginning in the 14th century, with subsequent alterations\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOver the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, the palace was a fortress dominating the Aranda district, with all of its rooms arranged around an open courtyard in the center. From that era, the Sala Dorada, or Sal\u00f3n de Protocolos, and the private bedroom where Benedict XIII, known as Papa Luna, was born, still remain.\r\n

\r\nIn the 16th century, Pedro Mart\u00ednez de Luna, the first count of Morata and viceroy of Aragon, ordered the transformation of the fortress, giving it a more palatial appearance. At that time, the arched passageway running around the entire upper perimeter and the main portal were created. It may have been inspired by the main fa\u00e7ade of the Ducal Palace of Urbino (Italy), extolling the influence of the Italian Renaissance in Aragonese territory.\r\n

\r\nDuring the 17th century, remodeling work on the castle-palace continued, funded by Francisco Sanz de Cort\u00e9s, the first marquis of Villaverde, who ordered the main entrance to be remodeled, the castle bailey to be expanded, the medieval courtyard to be covered over with a monumental staircase and the mausoleum in the private chapel to be decorated. In the 19th century the castle became the property of the counts of Morata, later falling into the hands of the counts of Argillo and, finally, the Bordi\u00fa Nava family.\r\n

\r\nThe compound is constructed of masonry and brick, arranged in an elongated rectangular floor plan. It is distributed into three levels, with the main rooms on the first floor, the second floor housing various bedchambers and the third floor consisting of a passageway of double round arches running around the entire outer perimeter of the castle-palace.\r\n

\r\nThe Sala Dorada, or Sal\u00f3n de Protocolo, is one of the oldest rooms in the castle-palace and currently serves as the central hub for the rest of the compound. This highly interesting room was built in the 14th century and gets its name, Sala Dorada, or Golden Room, from the gold-colored decoration that has been preserved on the alfarje ceiling structure here, which is entirely decorated with heraldic motifs of the Luna family and Mudejar decorative motifs. Moreover, the Mudejar frieze that runs around its entire perimeter, consisting of polychrome fretted plasterwork, and the high quality alfarje are also striking.\r\n

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\r\nThe mausoleum itself was constructed in the 17th century, featuring the heraldic representation of the coat of arms of Benedict XIII in polychrome plasterwork in the pediment. Upon entering the castle-palace, there is a monumental staircase erected in the 17th century in the space that had held the open medieval courtyard up to that time, which leads to the rooms surrounding the courtyard. This imposing staircase was built in 1665 and features a passageway of round arches at the top, resting on simple columns with a base and capital, covered by a large dome on pendentives topped by a lantern. There is also Baroque plaster decoration.\r\n

\r\nIn the Sala de la Corona de Arag\u00f3n, a space constructed in the 17th century, the most striking feature is the wood frieze decorated with leaf, egg and die motifs and turned colonettes. Covering this room is a simple flat ceiling with clad wood beams and plaster fill. On the exterior of this immense prism-shaped volume with four cube-shaped turrets at the corners is the portal, located on the main fa\u00e7ade: broken down into three levels, like the rest of the building, it is framed by two circular turrets. Both are made of masonry up to the level of the arched passageway and contain three blind arches each, topped by six openings around the perimeter of the upper section.\r\n

\r\nProjecting some two meters beyond these turrets, the entrance consists of a round arch flanked by double pilasters with Tuscan capitals holding up a decorative frieze of mascarons and a broken pediment of volutes, also framed by Tuscan order pilasters. Over the entrance there is a second volume that is more severe and austere than the first but uses the same compositional\r\n

\r\nscheme, and above that is the third volume containing an undecorated opening featuring an architrave with an overhang.\r\n

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\r\nIn 1984-1985 and 1991-1996, the Government of Aragon and the Illueca city council sponsored several restoration projects with a total cost of 400,333 euros.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\r\nIn 1931 the building was declared a Historical and Artistic Monument under the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts Decree of June 3, 1931 published in the Madrid Gazette on June 4 1931.\r\n

\r\nIn 2003, the Official Gazette of Aragon (BOA) dated January 29, 2003 published the Department of Culture and Tourism Order of December 16, 2002, whereby the original declaration of the Palace of the Luna Family, also known as the Palace of the Morata Family, in Illueca (Zaragoza) is supplemented pursuant to Transitional Provision One of Aragonese Cultural Heritage Act 3\/1999, of March 10. This Papa Luna Castle and Palace is also included in the list of castles considered Assets of Cultural Interest in accordance with the terms of Additional Provision Two of Aragonese Cultural Heritage Act 3\/1999, of March 10. This list was published in the Official Gazette of Aragon on, May 22, 2006.\r\n

\r\nThe Official Gazette of Aragon (BOA) dated March 11, 2002 published the Department of Culture and Tourism Order of February 22, 2002, whereby the original declaration of the church as an Asset of Cultural Interest is supplemented pursuant to Transitional Provision One of Aragonese Cultural Heritage Act 3\/1999, of March 10, defining the movable assets and the environment affected by the declaration.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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ABAD R\u00cdOS, F. Cat\u00e1logo Monumental de Espa\u00f1a, Zaragoza, CSIC-Instituto Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, Madrid, 1979<\/p>

VV.AA. Comarca del Aranda, Colecci\u00f3n RUTASCAI por Arag\u00f3n n\u00ba 25, Zaragoza, 2005.<\/p>

\u00a0VV.AA. Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (GEA) 2000, Vol. 11, El Peri\u00f3dico de Arag\u00f3n-Prensa Diaria Aragonesa, Zaragoza, 2000.\u00a0<\/p>

VV.AA. Gu\u00eda de Museos de Arag\u00f3n, Prensa Diaria Aragonesa S.A., Zaragoza, 2004.\u00a0<\/p>

VV.AA. Tierra Mud\u00e9jar. El mud\u00e9jar Aragon\u00e9s, Patrimonio Mundial, Heraldo de Arag\u00f3n, D.L. 2002.<\/p>

L\u00d3PEZ ROJO, Pilar. La capilla del castillo del Papa Luna de Illueca se abre al p\u00fablico por primera vez. Heraldo de Arag\u00f3n. 29\/02\/2012 p. 15.\u00a0<\/p>

M\u00c9NDEZ DE JUAN, Jos\u00e9 F\u00e9lix et al. (coord.). Arag\u00f3n. Patrimonio cultural restaurado. 1984\/2009: Bienes inmuebles. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Arag\u00f3n, 2010.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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