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This tower was built in the first half of the 16th century by Andrés Martínez de Ondarza.
Martínez de Ondarza held very high offices in the court of King Ferdinand the Catholic, and subsequently with Queen Joanna and the Emperor Charles V. In 1536, he received royal dispensation from the emperor to found his estate, or mayorazgo, at the head of which he placed this house in Bergara.
The tower’s façade that looks out onto Bidekurutzeta street has two large pointed arches and two coats of arms: the family one and, above it, the imperial one, which is very delicately carved and adorned with the double-headed eagle and the golden fleece. In Baroque times, the building was further enriched with an elegant eave.