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Palace of El Castañar

Mazarambroz, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

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Palace of El Castañar

Monument · Mazarambroz, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

The palace of El Castañar stands at the centre of the estate of the same name, in Mazarambroz (Montes de Toledo, Toledo), a seigneurial residence linked to the hunting and farming use of the dehesa. It was built in the early 20th century, between 1904 and 1909, to a design by Joaquín Saldaña y López, inspired by Walter Scott's Scottish Abbotsford House, in an eclectic, historicist three-storey style, with regular ashlar, very steep slate roofs and turrets topped with merlons. It has two gardens, French and Italian, and a 19th-century historicist chapel. Today it is the private property of the Count of Mayalde and Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection). The estate, with 6,800 hectares of holm oak woodland, maintains vineyards, olive groves and Iberian pig farming, and is a big-game hunting reserve where Juan Carlos I shot his first wild boar in 1949.

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