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We exclusively present a historic castle located in the interior of Castile, in the depression of a river valley between two rural nuclei, at a strategic point that originally served as a watchtower to detect the presence of enemies.

It is a castle in Gothic-Mudejar style, of Toledo typology, the original work of Arab builders. Its current physiognomy, however, hardly resembles the caliphal era: the successive generations of owners it has had over the centuries left their own architectural mark, superimposing styles from very different periods on the original fortification.

It is a mixture of fortress and palace, with a square floor plan, with walls crowned by battlements and flanked by six imposing towers – three prismatic and three cylindrical – adorned with numerous balconies and windows framed with alfiz, mullioned openings and horseshoe, ogee and pointed arches. Its walls are made of ashlar stone, Mudejar brick, limestone and masonry with gravel, all wrapped by dense vegetation that covers a large part of the building and by an extensive forest of holm oaks, poplars, poplars, junipers and willows typical of riverside vegetation.

The origin of the castle is not entirely clear: some historians place it in the early medieval period, between the eighth and tenth centuries, although no remains of this early period are preserved. The oldest datable elements that are preserved – the pointed arches on the west side of the Parade Ground – already correspond to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From then on, the six towers were incorporated successively over the centuries, until they reached their definitive physiognomy with the latest reforms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Throughout its history, the castle served as a residence for different lineages of the high nobility and royalty of the peninsular kingdoms between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, and it was one of its owners, as early as the fifteenth century, who gave it the marked Mudejar character that it retains today. Oral tradition also attributes episodes linked to the high European royalty of the time, although not all of them are documented with certainty.

In the mid-nineteenth century, one of its owners – linked to the Crown – rescued the fortress from a state of ruin and undertook a Romantic-style restoration, in which the south wing of the Patio de Armas was built. Already in the twentieth century, its then owners carried out the definitive reform of the complex, after the Spanish Civil War left the castle in a slight abandonment that required several years of rehabilitation.

The castle has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), and its most outstanding architectural style – Gothic-Mudejar – coexists with remains of Arab roots and with later Elizabethan and Neoclassical contributions.

This is an off-market property: no photographs, exact location, name of the property or cadastral reference are published. The complete dossier and the visit are provided only to qualified clients, after accreditation of solvency and signing of a confidentiality agreement.