House of the Counts of Santa Pola

The first Count of Santa Pola, Don Juan B. de Antequera y Angosto, married the Ronda doña María del Espíritu Santo de Arce y Guerrero de Escalante, who was born in our city on May 28, 1900. They are a family that descends from the first settlers who arrived in Ronda with the Castilian Conquest. The House of the Counts of Santa Pola has on its cover a splendid shield whose exact identity is unknown, although they could be the primitive weapons that the Escalante / Gutiérrez Ceballos family had. It is, without a doubt, the most elegant shield of all those that exist in the city of Ronda. The stone façade, which cuts out the entrance of the house (18th century) on the white wall of the façade, is also, in its simplicity, one of the most beautiful. The lintel, in whose center the decorative shield is carved, is supported by simple pilasters, prolonged by triglyphs up to the split pediment that crowns the entrance. The pediment includes a proportionate rondeño black wrought iron fence, very typical and typical of Ronda, and producing a sober contrast with the whitewashed wall. Located on a plot near the Santo Domingo Convent, it has a very interesting patio, with lowered arches on two sides, to which there is a room with sprouted windows and horseshoe arches framed by alfiz with decorated spandrels; from this one passes to another room with horseshoe openings framed by alfiz also decorated, with a plinth decorated with blind arches. A small staircase leads to a chamber covered with two groin vaults and a horseshoe opening that illuminates it, from there it descends to another small room, which is called Mirhab, it is a small Muslim hermitage or oratory (marabout) . The House at the end of the last century is sold to the Muñoz family. It is currently leased as a Restaurant.