The Compassien House and the Hospital
- It is a building made in 1786 with ashlars from the rundown palace-castle of the king Martín el Humano –“The Human”- and the prince Enrique de Fortuna.
- The old Compassion House, the Franciscan Monastery which has a Gothic chapel.
- Founded by the bishop Aguilar.
- Built at the end of the 18th century using the remains of the demolition of the ancient Castle-Fortress of Segorbe.
- First use as a “Compassion House and Hospital”.
- Heavy external shape lighted by a curious central cloister with two floors and a typical neoclassical decorative simplicity.
- Massive dimensions.
- Built thanks to the bishop Gómez de Ahedo.
- Beginning of the works in 1786 under the orders of Mauro Mínguez, the author of the maps, valencian architect that also took part on the construction of the Cathedral.
- Rectangular building, whose rooms are distributed around the internal Cloister.
- The first floor was made by masonry.
- A frieze surrounds all the building.
- In a corner raises a tower ending in a escurialense