The Palacio de Viana was the manor of Villaseca for almost four centuries from the mid-15th century. It has been enlarged and refurbished, doubling its surface area in the 19th century.
Its 16th-century Mannerist entrance, attributed to Juan de Ochoa, gives way to an interior that provides an insight into the way of life of the Cordovan nobility. The palace houses innumerable collections, including Roman mosaics and busts, Baroque furniture, Flemish tapestries and an outstanding collection of leathers, cordobans and arquebuses from the 15th to 19th centuries. It also has a library with more than seven thousand volumes and tapestries, including four based on cartoons by Goya and "The Resurrection of Christ" by Wilhem de Pannemaker.
The twelve courtyards of the Palacio de Viana are its main attraction, occupying almost 4,000 of its 6,500 m². This place condenses, like no other in Cordoba, the beauty of the courtyards, where architecture surrenders to the garden and pays homage to plants, flowers, light and water. Here, art is experienced through the senses.
Viana offers a historical and sensorial journey through the courtyards of Cordoba, without leaving the building itself. Patios such as the Chapel, La Cancela, El Pozo, Los Gatos and La Madama, together with a garden with hedge mazes, show the evolution of this tradition. With five centuries of history, the courtyards have always been the soul of this palace, inhabited by the nobility but with popular roots, being the most extensive representation of the Roman and Arabic heritage of the Cordoban courtyard.
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