Úbeda

Úbeda stands on a ridge above the Guadalquivir valley, its streets enriched by the churches and palaces of the Renaissance. Noble families and royal officials invested their wealth in buildings that transformed the town in the sixteenth century. Among them was Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Charles V, who commissioned the Sacred Chapel of El Salvador as a family funerary church. Andrés de Vandelvira worked on the chapel and other distinguished buildings in Úbeda, shaping a townscape that expressed the ambitions of its patrons in the new classical style.