Burgos - Casa del Cordón

In Plaza Calvo Sotelo, to the east of the Plaza Mayor, is the Casa del Cordón, a house built in 1482-92 for the Constable of Castile. The name comes from the cordón, the girdle worn by Franciscan friars, which features in the decoration over the doorway. In this house Columbus was received by the Catholic Monarchs in 1497 after his return from his second voyage to the New World; here too Philip I died in 1506; and here the French king Francis I was held prisoner after the battle of Pavia in 1525.