Casa de las Conchas

Casa de las Conchas. Built in1493-1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, a knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela and a professor at the University of Salamanca. Its most significant feature is the façade, mixing late Gothic and Plateresque styles, decorated with more than 300 shells, the symbol of the order of Santiago. Calle de la Compañía, 2. "... at the corner of the Calle de Melendez, in a small plaza, stands the Casa de las Conchas, dating from 1514 and named from the scallop-shells that sprinkle the façades and are repeated in the beautiful window-grilles".--Baedeker 1913. IMG_8215p1