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Castle of San Silvestre

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Castle of San Silvestre

Monument · Novés, Torrijos, Toledo

San Silvestre Castle stands beside the remains of the old village of San Silvestre —of which only a small parish church and a farmhouse survive— and is reached from Novés heading towards Santa Cruz del Retamar. It was built in the 15th century by the commander Gutierre de Cárdenas, as were the castles of Maqueda and Caudilla, with which it shares features such as granite arrow slits in the shape of the cross of Santiago. Small in size and square in plan, it retains three façades —one almost complete— with cylindrical towers on a truncated-cone base and double-merlon battlements, unique in the province; it lacks a keep, though beneath the building there are two vaulted rooms serving as a cellar. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1931, it is today a stabilised ruin, on a privately owned estate given over to cereal farming.

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