Torre y palacio de los Ferrera

Báscones, Grado, Spain, Spain

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The Torre y Palacio de los Ferrera is a historic fortress-palace complex in the village of Báscones, within the Grado municipality in Asturias, Spain.

Its oldest core is a robust rectangular Gothic tower from the 13th-14th centuries, featuring defensive slit windows (saeteras) and an elevated entrance over three meters high for protection. Originally a standalone military structure, it later integrated with a reformed fortified house by the Álvarez Rivera family, evolving into the current palace under the Ferrera marquises and María Quintana Navia Osorio, who extensively renovated it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

The palace showcases a grand rectangular building with two floors of glazed galleries framed by semicircular arches, a central patio with a stone staircase, heraldic shield, and colorful modern tilework, plus an adjoining stone chapel; the site also includes a farm building and access bridge, and served as a barracks during the Spanish Civil War. Privately owned, it reflects medieval defensive architecture blended with later noble opulence.