You can see how the ground floor and the decoration on the noble floor has been influenced by the style of the Napoleonic era of the late 17th century.

As you enter Casa Palacio, the entrance, the vestibule and the stairway form a sequence of intermediate spaces that act as a transition between the public and private spaces.

We invite you to climb the main staircase and gaze up to appreciate the floral decorations on the noble floor.

The noble floor is located above the ground floor and was used as the main floor of the building. It contained the main bedrooms and the reception rooms, such as the Red Lounge, the smoking room and the mirror dining room. This last room was used as the main dining room at Casa Palacio and is decorated with mirrors and plasterwork across the walls.

If you look up from the main courtyard you will see one of the most beautiful glass roofs in the city of Cádiz, built at the end of the 19th century. This glass roof covered the main courtyard to provide two functions at the same time: enable the entry of natural light and provide shelter from the outdoors.

The use of materials like glass and iron are representative of the revolutionary trends that emerged from the industrial society. These new construction forms are very light and serve as a dramatic contrast against the more solid and sturdy traditional alternatives. The decoration is scarce, with the main focus being on navy blue, a colour designed to highlight the simplicity of the forms.

If you head towards the upper terrace you will find the watchtower. This architectural construction is built in three sections and is one of the tallest in the city.
Watchtowers are one of the defining characteristics of Cádiz's architecture, dominating the city’s skyline and representing its association with life and commerce deriving from the sea.

Cádiz’s watchtowers were designed for seeing and being seen. From the top, flags were raised to communicate with ships that were entering and leaving the port. This is how, in the 18th century, watchtowers became a symbol of prestige for some of the city’s merchants, who sought to make their watchtower more striking and spectacular than those of their competitors, decorating them with all kinds of adornments.

Despite the passing of time, the watchtowers continue to crown Cádiz’s skyline, serving as a reminder of the city's past glory with the first discovery of the “New World”.

If you cross the inner part of the garden you will come across the Pozo de la Jara, a rectangular draw well whose name comes from its previous location at Campo de la Jara, the main water supply point in the city. The Bay of Cádiz became the first urban agglomeration in Spain in the 18th century. This means that there was a need to build up supplies of water, due to the geographic conditions that made it difficult to access supply.

This was a particularly critical situation in Cádiz, as they only had one well for drinking water, the Pozo de la Jara, which was located in Plaza de San Antonio. There are texts written about the importance of this well dating back to the Roman times, and there are even records showing that the West Indies Fleet preferred to drink water from the Pozo de la Jara due to its fine properties.

It soon became apparent that this single water supply point wasn't sufficient, which is why an aqueduct was constructed in Roman times to transport water from the Sierra de las Cabras, the Tempul spring in Jerez de la Frontera specifically, to the city.