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Regarded as the finest example of an Andalusian aristocratic palace in Seville, the Casa de Pilatos is a sixteenth-century mansion that blends Mudejar, Gothic and Renaissance styles in a harmonious whole, set among the streets of the old city. The palace was built by the powerful Enriquez de Ribera family, and according to tradition it takes its name from a comparison drawn between the house and the praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, after one of its owners returned from a pilgrimage to ...