Casa de Pilatos

La Casa de Pilatos (Pilate's House) is an Andalusian palace in Seville, Spain, which serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli.

Popular imagination has since mistakenly identified the palace as a copy of the house of Pilate; thus the rooms have been named along the theme of the Passion of Christ: "Hall of the Praetorian", "Chapel of the Flagellations", etc.

In the 16th century, under the orders of Pedro Afán de Ribera, viceroy of Naples, the architect Benvenuto Tortello was responsible for rebuilding the palace leaving the old Mudéjar rooms intact.

As with most palaces of the period, the Casa de Pilatos also has a chapel, designed in a fusion of the Gothic and Mudéjar styles, with antique decor and numerous manuscripts.

Several films have been shot in the Casa de Pilatos, including Lawrence of Arabia in 1962,[4] and Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise in 1992,[5] and Kingdom of Heaven in 2005.

The palace has a collection of statues, most notably twenty-five busts from ancient Rome, one from ancient Greece dating from 5th century BC, and a 16th-century depiction of Charles V. [ 1 ]
Main gate
Old azulejos through the palace
The two 16th-century [ 1 ] tiled gardens made by Neapolitan Benvenuto Tortello; both gardens suffered renovations in 19th century.