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Castle of Doña Urraca

Calatorao, Valdejalón, Zaragoza

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Castle of Doña Urraca

Monument · Calatorao, Valdejalón, Zaragoza

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The castle of Doña Urraca, also called the castle-palace of the Priors, stands atop the town of Calatorao (Valdejalón, Zaragoza), next to the church of San Bartolomé. It preserves a crenellated tower from the 14th century, which gives it its original defensive appearance, and it was thoroughly renovated between 1504 and 1509 by the Mudéjar master craftsmen Zalema Xama and Mahoma Allabar, who gave it its present Aragonese Mudéjar Renaissance style with Gothic details, rectangular in plan and built of ashlar stone. It preserves practically intact the early 20th-century kitchen, two complete bathrooms, the restored coffered ceiling of the Hall of the Kings, the roof and the battlements.

Photo: Fran Ara (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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