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Otxandategi Tower (13th century). Nowadays it seems as if later constructions, such as a palace-house or a farmhouse, had been squeezing it little by little. Nevertheless, we can still see its obvious vertical development. The walls, about a metre thick, are made of ashlar and contain the old elevated ogive-arched access. On the other hand, the attached palace-house has its door also on the first floor, crowned by the coat of arms.

Basagoiti Tower (15th century). It is a residential building with masonry on the lower part and ashlar on the upper one. After many reform-works and addings, it only keeps its cubic volume, its outer walls of Gothic bond and the remains of some pointed Gothic bays. In the 12th century, some new elements were attached to it; i.e. a pavilion with a foot-based access and an ogive-arched door upon which a coat of arms holds a Latin cross.

The Berango-Uriarte Tower and the Agirre Palace. In 1921, the architect Manuel Smith began the construction, on Neo-Basque style, of what we now know as the Agirre Palace, over the old Romanic tower of the lords of Berango. He used the walls of the tower for the garage and the services area, whilst other elements such as the narrow foot or the gallery with its two arches and the coat of arms, were used as building material. Smith kept the manorial style by means of six new semicircular bays.

Soparda Palace. It is a discrete and compact building, with an arcade on the lower floor. The bays are defined by flat lug plates and has Baroque bars in the balcony. Though much more modest, the Icaza Palace, of mountain style, and the Neo-Basque Sasiarte House are also worth mentioning.