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Castillo-Palacio de los Ribera

Bornos, Sierra de Cádiz, Cádiz

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Castillo-Palacio de los Ribera

Monument · Bornos, Sierra de Cádiz, Cádiz

The palace of the Enríquez de Ribera family, in Bornos (Cádiz), was built in the 16th century on the site of the old Fontanar castle, of Arab origin, of which only some stretches of wall and the keep remain. Per Afán de Ribera the Elder, adelantado mayor of Andalusia, bought the castle in 1398, and in the 16th century the Enríquez de Ribera family transformed it into a Plateresque palace under Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera, first Marquis of Tarifa, who hired Spanish and Italian artists. The square keep is organised into different rooms; the palace has a porticoed courtyard with round arches and a late Gothic doorway with cardina-leaf decoration. Between 1992 and 1995 it was restored through an Escuela Taller, which also recovered its Renaissance and Arab garden.

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Photo: El Pantera (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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