Adarve: Palace of Infante Don Luis de Borbón

If you look to your right in the highest part of the town, you can see part of the palace of Infante Don Luis Antonio de Borbón y Farnesio, the brother of King Carlos III. In 1778, after marrying María Teresa de Vallabriga and due to disagreements with the king, whom we invite you to learn more about by visiting the palace itself, he relocated his residence to Arenas de San Pedro. Initially, he lived in the "old palace" located on Triste Condesa Street, of which very few remains exist today. Later, when the progress of construction allowed, he moved to the palace known as the "Palacio de la Mosquera."
During the years that Don Luis lived here with his family, he had a small court, and the palace of Arenas welcomed prominent figures of the time, such as Francisco de Goya, Luigi Boccherini, and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, among others.