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Castle of Miraflores

Piedrabuena, Montes de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real

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Castle of Miraflores

Monument · Piedrabuena, Montes de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real

Miraflores Castle is a fortress of Islamic origin located about two kilometres from the town centre of Piedrabuena, dated by ceramic finds to around the 9th and 10th centuries, although with later modifications up to the 14th century. Documented from a bull of Pope Gregory VIII of 1187 among the possessions of the Order of Calatrava, it passed into Christian hands in the mid-12th century, was taken by the Almohads in 1196 and reconquered in the campaign of Las Navas in 1212. Of polygonal plan and small dimensions, it preserves a slender prismatic tower at the northwest corner and an enclosure of about 160 metres in perimeter with walls 1.8 metres thick, with almost no visible structures inside. Its ruins appear on the Red List of Heritage at Risk.

Photo: Juan Ramon Navas Glembotzky (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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