Doncellas Nobles

The courtyard, designed by Ventura Rodríguez and executed by Eugenio López Durango, is built with granite ashlars. It has two floors with semicircular arches and pilasters with Corinthian capitals on the lower floor and segmental arches and composite capitals on the upper floor.

On one side, a ceramic plaque reminds us of the visit to the College of King Alfonso XIII on 27 February 1928, accompanied by the other co-patron, Cardinal Segura y Saez. Below it, a small room restored on the occasion of this visit. This room contains noteworthy paintings on copper, leather chairs embossed by the schoolgirls and stained-glass windows signed by D. Moragón and dated 1931,- in which the usual scene of the schoolgirls protected by the Virgin is depicted-, ironwork by Julio Pascual and a great profusion of ceramics by Ángel Pedraza.

On the opposite side, there are copper tools that were used to collect water from the building’s Arab cisterns. To the right, the start of a monumental staircase that must have once led to the most noble rooms.

On the side between the Alfonso XIII room and the staircase, there is a linteled door in baroque style that gives access to the noblest room in the building: the rectory hall. It is known as the Sala de Visitas (Visitors’ Room). It was the place where the relatives of the residents who visited them were received.

The galleries surrounding the courtyard are decorated with tiles depicting different passages from the Book of Proverbs.