The Ordazes Solar

This palace is in Largo D. João III square, next to City Hall and the Ethnographic Museum. It's a civilian building that represents the social prestige of one of the most important families of Miranda, the Ordazes, who had great power and aristocratic influence. It was built in the fifteenth century, but later reformed, the monumental Baroque facade is from the second half of the eighteenth century. It has two floors, the second has 6 balconies with wrought iron railings framed with curved granite spandrels, keeping its original medieval structure. When I visited the building was being used as headquarters of a political party.