One of the best-preserved remains of the palace of the Centelles Riu Sech, Counts in Oliva from 1449, is what is popularly known as the Torre de la C/ Comare – one of the four circular corner-towers that defended the walls of the old palace-castle. Located at the south-east corner of the building, its three floors are connected to various other adjacent, rectangular rooms bordered off on two sides by the boundary walls of the building.

The building, formed by the tower and rectangular rooms, which was acquired by the council in 1987 and restored in 1999, allows you to fully appreciate the characteristics of a Gothic palace, radically remodelled at the beginning of the 16th century with the incorporation of decorative and architectural features of the early Renaissance. Amongst the well-preserved, original remains are the arrow slits in the tower and the spiral staircase – with the base of the handrail decorated with grooves – that links the first-floor room to that of the second floor. The tower has an explanatory exhibition of the building as a whole accompanied by a select representation of pieces of the remains of the original floor of one of the rooms, dating from the first half of the 16th century.

A visit to the Archaeological Museum where, amongst other materials, there is a model in miniature of the Counts’ palace in its heyday, is the perfect complement to a trip to the building itself in order to understand its importance in terms of 15th and 16th-century Valencian architecture.