Huarte House

The Paseo de Herrerías became the best urban space in Tudela's Baroque style. The result of the filling of the old wall moat, it was initially used as a stage for bullfights and parades until the construction of the placeNueva, and later became the best showcase for the splendid façades of the new palaces. The first of these was the unique main house of Huarte, the finest building of Navarrese stately Baroque and an outstanding example of Hispanic art. The building was promoted between 1739 and 1744 by Diego Huarte y Francia on two previous buildings, with a double access and distribution of the main rooms to the promenade and to the placedel Mercadal.

There was to be a connecting passageway between the two façades, so the master builder José Marzal, considered the architect of project, designed a unique double imperial staircase with intermediate flights suspended over this passageway. The lighting is received from above under a spectacular roof of five groin vaults and a central dome with a lantern over four pinnacles with hanging children, a very baroque typology that is present in a simpler form in numerous monuments on the riverbanks. On the Mercadal façade, the mural pictorial decoration was reconstructed following the remains preserved, consisting of a variegated framing of the openings with stipites, fauns and knights, as well as scallops and brackets.