In relation to the aesthetic transformation that took place in Cordoba in the 16th century, affecting the plazas, important buildings and principal houses, special attention should be drawn to the plateresque façades.
The Higher Conservatory of Music, formerly the house of Rodrigo Méndez de Sotomayor (1551), boasts the city’s best preserved plateresque façade.
The façade bears embossed decoration, appearing as blind fretwork, surrounded by trabeated doorways and completed by a window with balustrade columns and a curved pediment, with Plateresque decoration that presents a mythological aspect.
