The Festejadors: a window to the outside world

We are in the West hall, and next to the bedrooms we find a common architectural element: the festejadors. These bench-like festejadors located on either side of the large windows could either be used to sit and talk, to do tasks that required plenty of light or simply as a point from which to contemplate the outside world. A space designed to see and be seen; a space that allows a dialogue between the interior and the exterior; a space that allows one to contemplate the outside world from a prime position, while always keeping an eye on the private space. The festejadors were thus large, ornamented, double or triple-arched windows, usually with floral or geometric motifs, and which literature has always associated with the courtship between ladies and knights; imagining the knights at the foot of the window wooing the lady.

The room has other elements that show us this more palatial or residential use of the castle, such as the fireplace; evidence recorded in the reconstruction work on the complex.