From defending the Wall to protecting art 

Originally Casa del Sol was part of the city walls.  

Given that its physical layout is determined by its location, a rocky spur in the upper part of the city wall, it forms a natural bastion that would originally have been used for defensive purposes. Its position would have even greater value with the developments that took place within artillery during the Middle Ages. 

In 1452, King Henry IV transformed the site by building a slaughterhouse on its platform. This consisted of a building and pens for the cattle which served the Jewish quarter. 

With the Edict of Granada, which led to the expulsion of the Jews, the slaughterhouse was used by the whole city right up until the early 1970s. In 1980, its municipal ownership was ceded to the State and it became the current location of the headquarters of the Segovia Museum, which opened in 1991.