Centro de Interpretación Andrés de Vandelvira y Cripta de Don Juan Vázquez de Molina

Located in the basement of the Town Hall, which was the old Palacio de Juan Vázquez de Molina in the town of Úbeda, the Vandelvira and Southern Renaissance Visitor Centre has definitively welcomed to the Renaissance heart of the town the exhibition designed almost a decade ago to celebrate the fifth centenary of the birth of the famed architect.

The exhibition comprises 39 photographs by the architect Marc Llimargas that show Renaissance monuments of Baeza, Úbeda, Jaén, La Guardia, Huelma, Villacarrillo and Linares; three audiovisual pieces on the life and work of Vandelvira, geometry and nature in his work, and the vandelviriano geometric language; and different explanatory panels that include important figures from history, including Plato, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo Da Vinci and Fray Luis, whose influence had an effect on the architect's work.

The exhibition, which is shared across four rooms, has different themes: "Reception", "The Renaissance that travelled to the Americas", "Masonry" and "Vandelvira, Renaissance Man". Meanwhile, the itinerary connects various themes related to vandelvirina heritage, including the influence of Jaén's cathedral in American constructions, the treatise of Alonso de Vandelvira and the importance of masonry to Vandelvira.

The Centre also has various communication mechanisms for adults and children and a model of the historic centre of Úbeda in which buildings designed by Vandelvira are highlighted, two touch-screen computers and a puzzle with arches that favours the active participation of children.