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Hecho por: Victoria Escribano y Elisa Manrique

media type="custom" key="6250415" = = =Exact location of the House and Tower of Lujanes toc= We can find the House and Tower of Lujanes in the Plaza de la Villa in Madrid. They are next to Elbow street. //Elbow street// = = =Lujan's family=



Luján is a surname that cames from Aragón. The real name is Luxan, but when the Spanish phoneme changed, the surname became Luján. Some members of the family participated in the Reconquest obtaining the kingdom of Aragón and Catalonia. In the XVI and XVII centuries some gentlemen of the family went to America extending the surname. It was one of the most extensive noble families of Madrid, original from Aragon. They were so many that they managed to have in the villa up to five or six primogenitures, for the great reputation. The house was ordered to build by Alvaro Lujan in 1494, the Lujan family lived there until the eighteenth century. The family was called "The Lujanes" The first owners of the house and the tower were the Lujanes that had Aragonese origin. In 1669, Charles II of Spain give a tittle of Count of Castroponce to Fernando de Luján. []

Who habited the House and Tower during the XVI and the XVII century?
At the end of the sixteenth century, Diego and Fernando of Lujan were living in it. []



Description
It is one of the oldest buildings of Madrid. The house and tower are from different years; The tower was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The house was finished at the end of the same century. The house and tower are made of brick and masonry. It is of Mudéjar style; Mudéjar style is an artistic style developed in the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, It consists on a lordly house and a robust tower, both from different ages. It was one of the highest buildings of the capital, Madrid. The House and Tower of Lujanes have an architectonic. gothic and medieval's of arabic inspiration; like "arco de herradura" that it´s joined with the "calle del codo" [] The House is of irregular floor,organized around a central court and it presents similar decorations to those of the Tower, emphasizing the gothic front and the heraldic device.

Front face
The three shields that you can see in the picture, are weapons of the Lujan's family. A beautiful arch of horse-shoe that gives to Elbow street.

On the main facade there are several shields: In this picture appears one of the shields that are in the Front face of the house. This shield means the weapons of the Lujan´s family.

 The battle of Pavia was a battle held on February 24, 1525 between French troops of King Francis I of France and the Spanish troops of Emperor Charles V, near the Italian city of Pavia.

Anecdote
Francis I of France prisoner at the Casa y Torre de Los Lujanes. Francis I of France (1494-1547) was imprisoned in the Tower of The Lujanes by the Emperor Charles V. After the defeat at the [|Battle of Pavia] in front of the Spanish regiments. (Some historians say that Francis I was captured by two Sorian people, whose names were: Barnuevoy Velasco Juan Rivera.) And he was transferred to Madrid by: Caravantes Garcia, who was "soriano" too.

The house and the tower of the Lujanes in 19th century
In the early nineteenth century, the tower was chosen to place one optical telegraph station on the Madrid-Aranjuez because at that time, was one of the tallest buildings in Madrid