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Valencia del Ventoso Castle
The Valencia del Ventoso Castle cannot be considered as either a defence nor a military building, but rather as a fortress house.
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- Valencia del Ventoso Castle
Location and Contact:
- Contact person: Ayuntamiento de Valencia del Ventoso
- Tel.:+34 924 56 21 27
- Fax: +34 924 56 20 72
- Email: ayuntamiento@valenciadelventoso.es
- Website address: www.valenciadelventoso.es
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The Valencia del Ventoso Castle cannot be considered as either a defence nor a military building, but rather as a fortress house.
The Valencia del Ventoso Castle was not built for defence or a military purposes. Construction of this fortress house was started in 1477 by the knight commander of the Order of Santiago, Rodrigo de Cárdenas, but was only finished a century later, in the time of Philip II.
The base of this solid palatial building is an irregular hexagon, it is built from masonry and stone with solid battlement walls to which seven cylindrical reinforcement towers are attached. At the south corner you will see several terraces on arches. -
- Origin:
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- 15th century
- 16th century
- Construction:
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- Castle
- Palace
- Art period:
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- Gothic
- Period in history:
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- Various periods
- Various styles
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