The stories told by the grandparents in the heat of the home stoves on cold winter nights, who still wander through their silent corridors, turned into vulgar ghosts from another era, the sorrowful souls of some members of that powerful family that he ordered to raise and within whose walls the most fantastic stories were developed.
Both the family and the place form an essential part of that head of Nueva Castilla, which is that sleeping giant, metaphorically speaking, as deep down we can consider that popular, but little or scarcely known, which is the Community of Guadalajara .
Capital of that Alcarria, of which the writer José Camilo Cela already affirmed in his travel chronicles, that 'everyone likes Alcarria but nobody comes to Alcarria', Guadalajara, located at the foot of that highway that is lost In the direction of Aragon and beyond, to Catalonia and the Pyrenees, it is an artistic and cultural capital, worth discovering, especially for the most demanding cultural palates.
The Palacio del Infantado, a true jewel of late-Gothic architecture from the 15th century, is possibly the most emblematic place in this land of honey and dusty roads, but it is certainly not the only one.
The formidable shields that can be seen on its main portal, following the thread of an architectural fantasy, whose symbolism could be comparable to that metaphorical language of birds, which according to the mysterious author Fulcanelli, animated the great creations of medieval stonemasons, indicate, with the presence of the gigantic wild men, the antiquity of the lineage that ordered it to be built, in those turbulent times when Castile ruled over a world that at first seemed small: the Mendoza.
Possibly, the best-known figure of the Mendoza family was the enigmatic, attractive and at the same time unfortunate princess of Éboli, who spent her entire life locked up in her palace in Pastrana, by order of Felipe II: the one, who in her time was considered as the most catholic of kings.
Of the various reconstructions and restorations suffered over time, including the terrifying fire that almost ended this priceless jewel in 1936, it is worth highlighting, above all, that marvel, ideal to let yourself be carried away by the senses, which is its Patio de los Lions
Since the comparisons are odious, although it may not have the sweetness or the African beauty of the patio of the same name, which is the best known and most admired of that fantastic Alhambra in Granada immortalized by the American writer Washington Irving in his stories, the Patio de the Lions of this Palace of the Infantado, is a true architectural delicacy, whose symbolism and splendor, evokes fantasy times, where, after all, even the nobility surrendered to the suggestion of the fantastic, creating true oases for the cultivation of the imagination, in times when wars, conspiracies and conquests used all available resources for their own ends.
Currently, this fantasy where the stone conjures up with the viewer to create fantasy spaces, houses one of the main museums in Guadalajara, which is recommended to visit.
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