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The castle of the Pacheco family

Castillo de Garcimuñoz, La Mancha Conquense, Cuenca

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The castle of the Pacheco family

Monument · Castillo de Garcimuñoz, La Mancha Conquense, Cuenca

Image of Castillo de Garcimuñoz, not of the place itself.

Juan Pacheco, marquis of Villena, raised in 1458 a new fortress over the alcázar that don Juan Manuel had built there. It preserves walls almost three metres thick and a Gothic-Isabelline doorway of exceptional carving.

1458

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