Palace of the Counts of Buenavista

The Palace of the Counts of Buenavista de la Victoria is a building of Spanish civil architecture from the 16th century, built around 1530-1540 by Diego de Cazalla and home to the Museo Picasso Málaga. Originally, it was the residential palace of the Counts of Buenavista de la Victoria, hence its name, it is located on San Agustín street in the Spanish city of Malaga, being declared a National Monument in 1939.

It is the most important example of civil architecture created after the conquest of Malaga by the Catholic Monarchs. Its architecture is Renaissance, with a Plateresque façade and Mudejar solutions.

It consists of a basement, ground floor and first floor, with a solid Plateresque façade made of ashlar blocks, where the decorative elements that frame the large, asymmetric openings are worked with simplicity but emphatic. The main access door was designed together with the upper balcony and the interior is organized around a patio with a double gallery. Through the stairs, at the bottom right, you can access the first floor that repeats the ground floor scheme. The tower of the building has a dust cover and coffers under alfiz in its upper part, with large ashlar rigging.

The Palace became, during the 20th century, the headquarters of the Museum of Fine Arts of Malaga, as a result of the Royal Decree of 1913 that reorganized this type of museum. Rented for years by its owner to the State, in 1996 it was designated as the headquarters of the Museo Picasso Málaga and, after its inauguration in 2003, in 2009 the transfer of the building, which was owned by the regional administration, to the resulting foundation was approved. of the merger of the Picasso Foundation and the "Paul, Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation".