Santa Maria Cultural Complex

Located in the former Hospital de Santa María, founded by the Monroy family in the 14th century. The main façade is Renaissance and on it we can see an image of the Virgin, a fleuroned cross of the Order of Santiago with four shells and coats of arms of the Monroy lineages.

Dean’s House and Dr. Trujillo

The Dean’s House and Doctor Trujillo’s House look like the same building but they are two different ones, although they were joined at the beginning of the 20th century to become the seat of the Palace of Justice. Both are contemporary.

The house of the Dean, built in the 17th century in neoclassical style, has the most emblematic corner coat of arms of the city and belongs to the Paniagua and Loaisa family, with five roses which gives rise to the surname Loaisa, and the sow under the holm oak and the Fleur de Lis of the Paniagua surname.

The house of Doctor Trujillo, a mixture of two architectural styles, Plateresque and Gothic, was built between the 14th and 16th centuries. In the upper part there is a gallery with six arches, and on the ground floor it preserves the beautiful ironwork of the period. Its name comes from the Archdeacon of Trujillo, Alfonso Fernández de Medina, who lived here in the 15th century.

House of the Argollas

Dating back to the 13th century, it was a crucial stage in the history of Plasencia and the whole of Spain. In 1475, the wedding procession of Juana la Beltraneja left from here to marry King Alfonso V of Portugal, a ceremony that took place in the Plaza Mayor. The rings on its façade indicate the benefits of this house on the right of asylum, a privilege by which any person who had committed a crime could take refuge in it.

House of the Almaraz or Grijalva families

Built as a tower with typical architecture of the 17th century. As a curiosity, we can see a replica in the Calle de los Conquistadores in the Pueblo Español in Barcelona, representing the Herrerian style architecture.

Convent of La Encarnación

Monasterio de la Encarnación, the original nucleus of the convent, was the ancestral home of the Archdeacon of Medellín, Gabriel Pizarro (1573). The Holy Office of the Inquisition had been interested in installing the tribunal here, but the brothers Pedro and Martín de la Mota (1579) bought the house to convert it into a monastery for nuns of the Order of Saint Dominic (1585).

The Convento de la Encarnación, of the Dominican nuns, extends on both sides of Calle Talavera and Calle Encarnación, joined by an overhanging passageway. In recent times its façade has been restored, including the coat of arms of the Zúñiga family.

Currently the only cloistered convent still active in the city of Plasencia, the cloistered nuns manage to maintain their small community by selling handmade sweets, which are sold on a lathe in Calle de la Encarnación, at the back of the convent. The mantecados and handmade chocolates stand out.