Juan Antonio Camacho de Saavedra

Juan Antonio Camacho de Saavedra (1669 – 4 October 1740) was a master architect of Córdoba, Spain who was active in the 18th century.

[1] In 1727, when he was 47 years old, Camacho had leased some houses of importance to the Angulo family in the square of San Andrés, Cordoba for one thousand fleeces annually.

[4] On the day before he died he signed a codicil to his will in which he declared that he was impoverished and the city of Cordoba owed him twenty thousand reais for his work on the Visos road and the Bridge of Alcolea.

At the end of that century the Friars Recollects of the convent were housed in the central building of the College of the Incarnation, which had belonged to the Society of Jesus.

[7] Nicolás Fernández de Córdoba, 10th Duke de Medinaceli, paid for construction of a luxurious infirmary designed by Camacho in the place the Franciscans had left the majestic stone building is surrounded by secondary stone structures such as the convent church, three hermitages, a gateway, courtyards and a small garden.

[7] The medieval castle of Montilla was built in the thirteenth century and partially demolished in 1508 by order of King Ferdinand II of Aragon to punish the 1st Marquis of Priego, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba y Pacheco for having led a riot in Córdoba against the inquisitor Diego Rodríguez de Lucero.

[5] The Hospital del Cardenal Salazar (1724) has great architectural beauty, with a facade of columns with Doric capitals flanking the arched entrance.

[1] In 1731 he was also working on the Franciscan convent of San Pedro el Real, with a facade very similar in style to that of the Hospital of Cardinal Salazar, which now houses the faculty of Philosophy and Letters.