Lyceum of Orense - Pazo de Oca Valladares

One of the best examples of Renaissance palace architecture in Galicia. It's in Lamas Carbajal Street, a stone throw away from the Church and Plaza de Santa Eufemia. The palace was built by Alvaro de Oca Sarmiento during the 16th century, and since 1850 it has been the home to Recreativo de Ourense Liceu, one of the oldest learned societies of the city. It is a 2 floor building, whose facade you can see 5 coats of arms of different lineages in the central balcony. Inside there's a colonnaded cloister, where you can also see these same shields and a Carrara marble fountain in the centre, which was the work of Piñeiro.