Alcañiz preserves an important number of palatial houses. Most of them follows the typology of the Aragonese palace tardorrenacentista: his front is articulated in three bodies or plants, the access is done across a great round arch and is his top floor one arranges the typical Aragonese gallery. This type of building is started using at the end of the 16th century, perviviendo up to the 18th century. The majority of these houses center in the Major street and in the Holy street Pau.
