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Alfonso X orders the demolition of the Cevico tower

Cevico de la Torre, El Cerrato, Palencia

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Alfonso X orders the demolition of the Cevico tower

Historical milestone · Cevico de la Torre, El Cerrato, Palencia

Image of Cevico de la Torre, not of the place itself.

In 1255 Alfonso X ordered the destruction of the fortified tower that gave the village its name and forbade the building of castles without royal licence; beneath the present houses remains of the fourteenth-century medieval fortified house still show.

1255

Photo: jacinta lluch valero from madrid * barcelona...., (España-Spain) (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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