The Dueñas Palace, a Renaissance urban palace located in Medina del Campo, Spain, is a National Monument (Asset of Cultural Interest) declared on June 3, 1931. It was commissioned by Diego Beltrán, a hidalgo who had made his fortune in Peru and was a member of the Royal Council of the Indies. The palace was built in the mid-1520s on a plot inside the city walls but set apart from the fair streets. Its design and execution are attributed to Luis de Vega, the royal architect responsible for the palace he built in Valladolid for Francisco de los Cobos y Molina around the same years. The courtyard of the palace is rectangular and two stories high, with columns and arches on both floors. Beneath it, hidden from the world above, lies a labyrinth.
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