Palau dels Bellvís

The palace forms a square plan around a central rectangular courtyard, the main building measuring roughly 27 by 25 metres and the inner yard about 13 by 10.2 metres. A projecting square tower at one corner measures approximately 7.2 by 7.4 metres. The overall composition integrates two towers with a three‑storey block (ground floor plus two upper floors) and presents its principal entrance to the town square, with a secondary access toward the garden or orchard at the rear.

The west tower is the site’s oldest component and dates to the thirteenth century; archaeological observation records rammed earth construction in this rear tower that corresponds to an earlier Islamic phase, later incorporated into the sixteenth‑century palace. A second tower built at the same time as the central body stands at the southwest corner facing the square. Both towers were lowered and their tops modified in the seventeenth century, a visible change to their original defensive profile.

The main façade onto the Plaza Mayor contains the principal doorway, which is framed by a semicircular ashlar arch. Windows and other openings are placed irregularly across the elevation; many are fitted with metal grilles, and a projecting enclosed window, or mirador, is present. Above the entrance there is a heraldic shield bearing the Bellvís arms, which appears to have been added at a later date. The upper storey is completed by a wooden cornice and a series of openings arranged like a covered gallery.

Wall construction combines high‑quality ashlar for the lower portion with rubble masonry and brick for the upper walls; the rear tower preserves sections of earth‑and‑lime rammed construction. Mortar in the central parts contains lime and sand with numerous brick fragments. The roof is a pitched structure covered with Arabic‑type tiles. Inside, the courtyard is articulated by two flattened, rebated arches defining the central space.

The palace stands beside an enclosed orchard and is surrounded by an area of land that historically belonged to the estate. The courtyard, towers and façades survive in situ, but the towers’ seventeenth‑century reduction and the recorded need for urgent intervention indicate that parts of the complex required consolidation. The town council’s acquisition of the adjacent house for a cultural centre represents a recent change in use, while the rest of the building continued as private property at the time of the report.