Casa de las Conchas

The Casa de las Conchas is a chronicled working in Salamanca, focal Spain. It at present houses an open library. It was worked from 1493 to 1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, a knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela and an educator in the University of Salamanca. Its most particular element is the facade, blending late Gothic and Plateresque style, brightened with in excess of 300 shells, image of the request of Santiago, and additionally of the pioneers playing out the Way of St. James. In the facade are likewise the emblem of the Catholic Monarchs and four windows in Gothic style, every one having an alternate shape.

The passage entrance has the ensign of the Maldonado family, while in the architrave are dolphins, a Renaissance image of adoration, and vegetable components. The inward court is portrayed, in the lower floor, by curves bolstered by square pilasters, while in the upper ones they are upheld by shorter sections in Carrara marble. Carrara marble is a kind of white or blue-dim marble of high caliber, well known for use in model and building stylistic theme. It is quarried in the city of Carrara situated in the region of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of current Tuscany, Italy.