.4.  GALLEY ROOM

Queen Catherine of Lancaster had this room built while her son Juan II was still a minor. The room was given its name because of the shape of the inverted hull of a ship that the moulded ceiling had before it was burnt down in the fire of 1862. Nowadays, the ceiling is more simple, consisting of Renaissance beams and "zapatas" ( beam-rests).

The frieze is made of Mudéjar plasterwork with the Royal coat of arms of Castile and Leon. It has a double inscription: the upper one is the Eucharistic prayer "Anima Christi", the lower one informs us that the piece of work was commissioned by Queen Catherine in 1412.

One of the walls has a mural-painting of Queen Isabel the Catholic when she was proclaimed Queen of Castile and Leon in Segovia on November 13^th, 1474. This piece of work, as well as the two stained-glass windows, were made by Carlos Muñoz de Pablos. The windows, which have a triptych shape, show the image of Enrique III and his family, Enrique II and some scenes of the death of Pedro I and Juan II respectively.

In this room we can also see some German-style suits of armour from the 15^th and 16^th centuries.