The palace is the largest urban mansion in the city, dating back to the late 18th century and built in the style of the Parisian civil palaces of the time. The building houses unique works of art by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt, Murillo, Ingres, Renoir, and Picasso as well as an impressive collection of furniture, decorative arts, tapestries and sculpture. Although the Liria Palace is associated with the House of Alba, the current owners, it originally belonged to the Dukes of Berwick, a branch of the Spanish nobility whose first duke was the illegitimate son of King James II of England.