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Declared a National Monument in 1931, its promoter was Juan Vázquez de Molina, nephew of the very powerful secretary for Castilian affairs, Francisco de los Cobos. He succeeded his uncle in the position of Secretary of State for the monarchs Charles V and Philip II. The palace was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the Renaissance architect Andrés de Vandelvira. The local stonemasons Miguel Calvyde, Antón Sánchez, Alonso Fernández and the grille Francisco López participated in its construction. It is strange that an architect gives the same importance to a construction of a civil nature as to one of a religious nature. With the construction of this palace, Andrés de Vandelvira made his culminating work in civil architecture, representing the maturity of the artist. The plan and elevation of the façade is influenced by the model of the "Roman house" of the Latin edition of Vitruvius published by Fra Giocondo of Verona in 1511. It is one of the most beautiful Renaissance palaces in Spain and one of the ones that best follows the principle of eurythmy proposed by the Roman architect, who advocates the good arrangement of the different parts of a building in terms of proportion, harmony and symmetry. The façades are arranged horizontally in three bodies, with different architectural orders, Corinthian for the first, Ionic for the second and in the last, caryatids together with telamones, as tenants bearing the coats of arms of the Molina, Mendoza, Vázquez, Cobos, Manuel and Quiñones. It is curious that on the façade he inverts the usual order of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. In addition, he uses the large human figure in the last body, believed to have been influenced by the French-born sculptor Esteban Jamete, possibly carved by him. Vertically it divides into seven streets of different widths barely perceptible to achieve an appearance of solidity. The openings are different in the three bodies: windows with wrought iron and festoons in the first, balconies with triangular pediment in the second and in the third oval portholes, influenced by Machuca and his Palace of Charles V. A cantilevered cornice finishes off the building and, at the corners, there are two turrets that are believed to have been added to act as a counterweight, which gives it a very elegant character. Here Vandelvira was inspired by the classical temples of isolated columns crowned by small domes – tholoi.
"Monumento al incendio de Santander y reconstrucción".
José Cobo Calderón (Santander, Cantabria, 1958)
Inaugurado en el año 1989 para recordar el gran incendio del 15 de febrero de 1941 que destruyó la mayor parte del casco histórico de la ciudad y cambió totalmente la fisonomía de la ciudad.
Se trata de un conjunto escultórico formado por una escultura en mármol elevada sobre una peana y siete figuras en bronce, a tamaño natural, repartidas a sus pies.
The shot I nearly missed having been out with the camera with nothing great to talk about I was driving home when in the mirror I could see the sky change I stopped the car went onto the beach no tripod no filters had to take my socks and shoes off but got several shots of this ,taken at Cobo beach Guernsey C.I
Thinking about the Beast From The East I thought hat I would dig out this one from a couple of years ago.
Probably the last from my set from cobo bay there maybe one more worth posting...
hopefully the sun will show it self this week and ill be able to try another from another part of the island.