Casa Ordóñez.Noble House

Casa Ordóñez

Casa Ordóñez is a Baroque noble building built in the second half of the 17th century, located at Granada street n° 26.
It is a building with two floors separated on the façade by a cornice. The façade has a large doorway sheltered between two Tuscan pilasters with a fluted shaft and a sober entablature with a balcony on the east axis, flanked by the Ordóñez family shields. Both the cover and the coats of arms are carved in marbled pink stone.
The interior spaces are articulated around a main patio with an upper gallery, with a first section of semicircular arches on Tuscan marble columns, and a second section with rectangular balconies. It has a secondary courtyard, simpler, with a side gallery of arches, as a viewpoint, topped by battlements with a cubic body and a pyramidal finish.
The structure is made of load-bearing walls of rammed earth and forged with fully treated and restored exposed wooden beams.
The house was inhabited by the Muñoz de Mendoza family. This family was closely related to the brotherhood of the Resurrection, currently known as the brotherhood of Christ of the Flagellation and Our Lady of Greater Pain. The headquarters of this brotherhood is located on the same Granada street. The relationship of this lineage with the brotherhood is documented in the book "Iglesias y Ermitas de Bornos", by the local author Don Manuel Barra Rodríguez, Favorite Son of the Villa de Bornos, posthumously.
A woman from this family, Catalina Muñoz de Mendoza, married Francisco Ordóñez Lobatón on November 9, 1742, who held the titles of Alférez Mayor de Bornos (1765) and Lieutenant Corregidor de Bornos (1777). Hence the name "Ordóñez" de la Casa.

One of his son, Bartolomé Ordóñez y Muñoz de Mendoza Jiménez Lobatón y Carrasco, was born in Bornos on December 22, 1746. He was Master of Ronda, Supernumerary Knight by Decree of June 15, 1790, Mayor of Bornos in 1776 and 1782 and named Knight of the Order of Carlos III, file 478, approved on February 22, 1791.
Much more recently, on April 14, 1954, Francisco García Pérez y García-Zapata, as Executor of Mrs. Ana Pérez de Grandallana y Zapata, ordered that a foundation be established with the assets left behind, the Casa y la Huerta Ordóñez, to that "free schools for poor children be established, where they are taught at all times according to the dogmas of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Religion." It also provides that "in the event that the life of this foundation is not very prosperous, and in order to help the greatest number of poor children to attend free schools, those in charge of them may admit some paying students, children of the residents of Bornos and Arcos.The orchard owned by the grantor in the municipality of Bornos, called Ordóñez, will also be assigned and in the form and manner that the executors freely agree to said foundation, so that with their income or their products In addition, the grantor leaves a capital of thirty-seven thousand five hundred pesetas, so that in the manner determined by the executors, they carry out the works that the house needs to establish them in the school and buy the material of the schools.
This entity was called the Fundación Benéfico-Docente "Escuela del Ave María". It was liquidated in 1977 and its assets, Casa and Huerta, were sold to the Bornos City Council for 110,000 and 120,000 pesetas, respectively.

Schedules:
    • Labor:
    • 10:00 - 14:00
    • 17:00 - 21:00

    • Weekend outside only.