Palacio de Peredo, Renaissance palace in Santillana del Mar, Spain

Palacio de Peredo is a late-Renaissance mountain mansion of two floors and four bays around a square central courtyard, its first level on arches and its second on wooden columns with classicist capitals. The south facade is ashlar masonry with a four-arch entrance hall, cobbled floor, two wrought-iron balconies, a coat of arms and six pinnacles above the cornice. An attached chapel has a carved floral doorway, a Peredo and Velarde shield held by lions, and a ribbed vault.

The palace was built in the 17th century by order of Licenciate Jorge de Peredo, then governor of Ponferrada, and his wife María de Velarde y Polanco, with additions made in the 18th century. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural on 26 February 1982. In 2003 the Santillana del Mar council, its current owner, restored it through its workshop-school, removing attached houses and sheds inside the fortified perimeter and adding a glass dome over the courtyard.

Locals call it the "palacio del chon de oro". The south facade carries the arms of the Peredo and Velarde families, and the chapel doorway, flanked by lions holding a Peredo and Velarde shield, keeps traces of the altarpiece painting. The palace now belongs to Santillana council, which uses it for cultural events.

The palace stands on a hill at 52.6 m above sea level in Viveda, in the municipality of Santillana del Mar, not in the town of Santillana del Mar itself. From the hill it overlooks the Besaya valley and the houses around the La Barca tower-house. The walled perimeter is trapezoidal, reinforced with stone pilasters every few metres.

The attached chapel features a stone archway at its entrance carved with delicate floral details that visitors often miss. These carved ornaments reveal the craftsmanship invested in even the smaller structures of the complex.