Today Hotel and, the Castle of Valdés Salas is located in the town of Salas, in the Asturian council of the same name.
It is a 16th century building, of a sober character, which is linked to the Torre de los Valdés, from the 15th century and with which it forms a set, by means of a lowered semicircular arch bridge where the family coats of arms are exhibited. Valdes-Salas.
The construction is made of masonry and stonework, a sample of the civil architecture of its time.
It was the home of the noble Valdés Salas family, whose best-known member is Fernando Valdés Salas, religious, inquisitor, politician and founder of the University of Oviedo, buried in the collegiate church of Santa María La Mayor and who was born in this palace.
The arrangement is a two-story house that revolves around an interior patio in the shape of a rectangular trapezoid. The patio is porticoed, and is crossed by a corridor with a railing of turned balusters, supported by wooden columns. The central body of the palace houses a hall that serves as a distributor. The North bay is arranged diagonally, and the main façade is located there, flanked by two protruding towers and the annexed chapel. The main door has a semicircular arch and small windows.
The chapel, called "Nuestra Señora de la Calle", is currently used as an exhibition hall. It is rectangular in plan, with the semicircular header covered with a barrel vault, and the space of the nave is also divided into two floors. On the upper floor there are two openings, which the Valdés Salas surely used at the time to attend the celebrations without being seen. Its only independent façade is oriented to the East.
The palace has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, with the category of Monument
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