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What to see and do in Rivilla de Barajas

What to see and do in Rivilla de Barajas (La Moraña, Ávila): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

How far each place is from the centre of Rivilla de Barajas

Castle of Castronuevo 2.9 km

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What to see and do in Rivilla de Barajas

Rivilla de Barajas
Village
Rivilla de Barajas is a hamlet of 59 inhabitants in the province of Ávila, in the comarca of La Moraña, situated at 901 metres above sea level, with a temperate climate of dry summers according to the Köppen classification. In the mid-19th century the town barely mustered a hundred residents, 102 to be exact, as recorded in the Diccionario of Pascual Madoz. On its municipal land stands the castle of Castronuevo, also called the castle of Rivilla de Barajas, which is the village's main heritage feature.
Castle of Castronuevo
Monument
Castronuevo castle, beside the road from Ávila to Salamanca, in the district of Rivilla de Barajas, was erected by Gil de Vivero before 1481 and later remodelled by his son Rodrigo, who in 1489 sold it to the Duke of Alba for 6,200,000 maravedís; it has belonged to the House of Alba ever since. It consists of a first rectangular enclosure with cylindrical corner towers, and a central rectangular core with cubes and square towers enclosing an ashlar palace with an arcaded gallery in the courtyard. Beneath the first enclosure open large brick vaulted halls, considered the best-preserved underground vaults in Europe, today converted into stables. The generic 1949 declaration protecting castles covered the complex, built between the 15th and 16th centuries.