The palace is the most important example of seigneurial architecture executed after the 1487 conquest of Málaga by the forces of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand during the Granada War, the last war of the "Reconquista"; Diego de Cazalla had participated in that conquest. The architectural style is basically that of the Renaissance, with a Plateresque façade and Mudéjar aspects. Some of those Mudéjar aspects may be directly inherited from the previous Nasrid palace on the site: Professor Fernando Marías states that the "torre morisca" ("Moorish tower") adjacent to the Mudejar patio dates back to the old Nasrid palace. This combination is particularly emblematic of the period following the completion of the "Reconquista". The chief Mudéjar element is the tower, which resembles those of certain houses in Granada in its style of cornice and in the low "alfiz"-style arches of its upper story, but is on a much grander scale than any found in that city.