The Casa de los Pinelo is a Renaissance-era building located in the centre of

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

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. It houses both the

Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras The Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras ()(''Seville Royal Academy of Literature'') is located in the Casa-Palacio de los Pinelo in central Seville, Spain. It is dedicated to the research and study of the cultural heritage of Seville and An ...

and the

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría (''Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary'') is located in the Casa de los Pinelo, Casa-Palacio de los Pinelo in central Seville, Spain. It is divided into six sections: ...

. It is named after one of its former owners, Francisco Pinelo (d. 1509), a wealthy merchant. The house dates from the 16th century and is centered around a courtyard, per the traditional layout that has been used in the region since the

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. The house mixes a number of architectural styles, such as the Plateresque motifs in the plasterwork of its arches, its

Mudéjar Mudéjar ( , also , , ca, mudèjar , ; from ar, مدجن, mudajjan, subjugated; tamed; domesticated) refers to the group of Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period despite the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for ...

ceilings, and a

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-style '' mirador'' (balcony) in the uppermost level.

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