Index of files of castles

Placed in the border between Castilla and Aragon, on a rocky formation lived from the Age of Bronze, The current strength, which corresponds to a reform of the 14th century, is formed by three concentric enclosures that they agree on outcrops of red sandstones, which were partially bad and modified to improve the defense, material also used in the construction of the walls of this strength. It has been restored widely it does a little time and relies on a museum that he gathers replies of many archaeological pieces gathered in the excavations.

Castle of eminently defensive and strategic function, it was constructed by the Muslims at the end of the 12th century or beginning of the XIIIth. Conquered by the Castilians in 1244, in 1305 it happened to depend on the Kingdom of Valencia. The exterior wall formed by two linens of masonry, with central tower and buckets in the ends, has form polygonal, crenellated and with an parapet that crosses all his interior, in which there exists a great square tower of two floors. From the 18th century it had deteriorated seriously, but it has been restored between 1974 and 1982.

Built by the Templars in 1187, it seems that on a Celtic fort occupied later by Romans and Visigoths. It suffered multiple avatars over several centuries, being the object of royal donations to military orders and noblemen until it was taken to Rodigo Osorio militarily by the Catholic Monarchs in 1486. ??Polygonally, it preserves constructions of the 12th century along with other which belong to the reform of the Catholic Monarchs, as the magnificent gateway between two towers. At present in its new rooms it offers the exhibition “Templum Libri”, large collection of facsimiles of illuminated codices.

Considered one of the first fortifications of the Valladolid school of the fifteenth century, built at a time of weakness of the monarchy before the power of the nobles, on an earlier castle of the fourteenth century. It has a square floor plan with the homage tower at an angle and three doors defended by cubes, which surrounds the courtyard. The entire building was surrounded at the end of the fifteenth century by a barbican with cubes in the corners and moat, now disappeared. After passing through several owners in the last 200 years, the castle has now become the property of the University of Valladolid. It is partially restored and can be visited.

Rebuilt between the 14th and 15th centuries in the Sierra Jarameña on an earlier Andalusian fortification, taken by the Order of Santiago in 1177 who built the first Christian castle. In a state of ruin, it seems that its restoration will begin. Formed by three enclosures, the most modern the exterior, with six cubes distributed by the two interiors, of which the remains of five are conserved, currently conserves although in bad condition the walled enclosure, the tower of the homage, the central courtyard with cistern, cellars and stables.

In spite of having being constructed in the middle of the 15th century, in which the majority of the strengths were of the type castle – palace, in this case we meet a castle created to defend the territories of his owner and to control the step along the bridge on the river Congosto. Of hexagonal plant, a walk of round crosses the whole wall, with a wall separating the court of weapon of the rest, a great tower of four floors and rectangular plant and another building of the same height and with form of D constructed years later. The set suffered big destructions during the war of the Independence and it is being restored at present.

Founded by Alfonso I the Battler in 1125 on a previous Arab castle, it was greatly modified in 1215 after its conquest by Sancho the Fort of Navarre. Its floor plan is an almost perfect rectangle, measuring 33 x 25m, of which seven majestic towers stand out, two of which form the access in turn to the interior of the enclosure. In its interior there is a small chapel in the form of a cube, which on the outside is only recognized by two large semicolumns attached to the right of a simple cover.

Sajazarra was strengthened between the XIIth and XIIIth century At the end of The 13th century there existed a primitive tower that was replaced with the castle / palace that still remains in the second half of the 15th century on the villa having transformed in dominion of the Velasco. It is constructed in cut stone, with an exterior rectangular enclosure, round buckets in the corners and flanking the door of access, and a defensive spur in the East. With the tower of the honoring in the center of the rectangle, of it plants also rectangular, with towers octogonales in his corners, crowned with matacanes and battlements.

There is news of this castle since the twelfth century, although the current one was finished in the fifteenth century. Surrounded by a 4m high barbacan, it has a square plan with three circular cubes, a pentagonal homage tower, of great height and an albarrana tower. Its courtyard, which overlooks the various outbuildings, among which the tower of the homenage and the chapel stand out. Fully restored in 2007, it currently belongs to the Castillo de Coracera Foundation, is open to visitors and is dedicated to the organization of events.

It was originally a Roman watchtower from which Torija got its name. Conquered by Alfonso VI in 1065, he gave it to the Templars who improved the fortress. After many vicissitudes and changes of owner, it became property of the Mendoza house. Built of stone in the 14th century, it is a medieval fortress before the use of artillery, located on the edge of the Alcarreño plateau and surrounded by a small outdoor enclosure, It has a square plan with high walls topped with a matacanes cornice, with circular turrets in the corners and a large square homage tower. He had the entrance on the north side.

Also called castle of Puñonrostro, because it belonged to the lord of the same name until the confiscation of Mendizabal, it was built in the fifteenth century on a previous fortress of which we have heard since the thirteenth. It consists of a rectangular enclosure with cylindrical towers attached to a rectangular Keep that must have been four floors plus terrace, with two cylindrical towers in the outer corners, in which the pointed door to the entire enclosure was originally opened. Currently the Castle belongs to the City Hall and is planned soon to be remodeled.

Built in the fifteenth century on a former fortress which at the same time stood on an old fort, it is formed by an L-shaped dwelling and three square-plan towers in the north-east, south-west and south-east, of which the one of the homage stands out, of three heights with a wooden balcony. All this is surrounded by an oval walled enclosure that encloses the main courtyard, with the entrance through a Gothic arch located in one of the towers. Privately owned was restored in 1988, a work that was awarded the Europa Nostra Prize in 1993.

The convent castle of Uclés stands on an elongated hill in the highest area of ??the town. It has its origin in the Islamic citadel, since it is known that Alfonso VIII gave the Order of Santiago “villa and castle” in 1174, on which they built a fortress in the 15th century; it consisted of Patio de Armas, four, drawbridge next to the corresponding warehouses, warehouses and rooms. Most of the building is today under the current Monastery built in the sixteenth century. Today stand the so-called Torre Albarrana, Torre Palomar and part of remains of canvases that would close the castle to the south.

Built on an ancient castro of the Bronze, Iron and Roman Age, in 1180, in the time of Ferdinand II, the construction of a new castle is begun although its present appearance corresponds to a broad set of reforms carried out in the 14th and 15th centuries. Built in stone, brick and wall masonry, it consists of a moat, an antewall and a large battlement wall with triple cube towers. To the south stands the great tower of homage. Restored in several phases since the middle of the 20th century, it houses the Museum of the Castle of Valencia of Don Juan inside a building of iron, wood and glass installed in the interior of the tower of homage.

Typical castle inside many constructed, in this case on a strength of the Órden de Alcántara, for the Castilian nobles in the 15th century. It was consisting of two enclosures and broad pit that still it appreciates, though blocked up enough. Of the exterior enclosure scarcely remains and the interior stay, partially preserved, it is of plant squared with buckets in the corners and a tower of the honoring, also squared. The Catholic one was used by Isabel against Juana ‘ The Beltraneja ‘ and in the raising commoner against Carlos V. Restored in 2006, Nowadays it is in use for organization of events.

The castle of Turégano has a beautiful temple dedicated to San Miguel, which would surely be erected after donation of the region by Doña Urraca to the bishops of Segovia, so it follows the traditional style of construction of the twelfth and thirteenth century . It was later when this great church was hidden behind the addition of towers, wall paintings, machicolations and halls in height, which hid the outside signs of its existence.

Castle of Arabic origin constructed in the 12th century on a Roman accession, which was reconquered by Jaime I in 1239 though it happened to depend definitively on Castile in 1244. It took part in the wars of The Germaniás, of Secession and of the Independence, of which it was very damaged. It is formed by a double enclosure walled from plant to rectangular, with the exterior wall defended by twelve towers and interior by circular buckets and a great tower of the honoring of four floors, in which the vaults are very interesting almohades of the first two plants and the stairs of roof spaces.

Fort of the 10th century raised in the high of a hill, it is the Arabic strength of Europa’s major importance with his 450 meters of length for 60 of width, and a few his walls reach a height of 10 meters. Arabic construction in his origin, also was repaired and reconstructed throughout the centuries by the successive Christian inhabitants who occupied her. Ashlars to rope and blight in the base and masonry to top height.

Nailed on the remains of a Celtic hopscotch, already she turns out to be mentioned in documents of the 10th century. The fortress would be reconstructed in the 12th century, at the end of the XIIIth it was the most important point of the defensive line of the south of Galicia, and in the 17th century two auxiliary enclosures were constructed walled. The result is a set of three enclosures of which the most interior is to the castle with the tower of the honoring and the tower of the ladies in his court of weapon. At present in him one finds Parador Nacional de Verín.