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Along the Paseo de las Olmas or Avenida del Caudillo you will arrive at the impressive Castle, begun to build in 1463 by the Moorish Avila Alí Caro and his brothers Aceyte and Yuçafe. It consists of three defensive lines of square shape, formed by a great moat and two walls supported in towers and towers in their angles. The Tower of Homage is square, with angles occupied in turn by circular towers of smaller size. It was built in brick, reserving the stone for saeteras, capitals, columns of the patio, arches of doors, balustrades and corbels. It has a rear door with drawbridge access. In its interior two levels of round trip: saeteras and artillery holes. The interior, despite the damage suffered in the nineteenth century is typical of a palace, the living room with double fireplace is the current museum or weapons room that has in its upper part another museum room with archaeological remains. It also has the largest set of Mudéjar paint in red, blue and black on stucco. In the seventeenth century the castle was the prison of illustrious traitors to the king: the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, the Count of Orgaz and the Marquis of Govea and Mancera. In 1954, the mayor Don Arturo Acosta García obtained from the Dukes of Alba his cession to the Ministry of Agriculture, which entrusted the restoration works until 1959 to the Academies of San Fernando and History. Then there was installed the School of Forest Forces that is still in operation.
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