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Castle and walls of San Felices de los Gallegos

San Felices de los Gallegos, Vitigudino, Salamanca

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Castle and walls of San Felices de los Gallegos

Monument · San Felices de los Gallegos, Vitigudino, Salamanca

Image of San Felices de los Gallegos, not of the place itself.

Of the medieval fortress that King Dinis of Portugal built in the 13th century, together with the town walls, and which took its final form in the 15th century, a large part of the crenellated walls survives, along with the keep, the result of the 1476 rebuilding of the old Torre de Don Dionís. Set in a frontier enclave disputed between Castile and Portugal, in 1374 it took in Beatriz de Portugal and her daughter Leonor with their whole court, and it remained in military use during the war in which Portugal rose against Philip IV and during the War of the Spanish Succession. The keep, restored in the late 1990s, today houses a centre interpreting the town's history, declared a Conjunto histórico-artístico (a heritage protection category, precursor to today's Bien de Interés Cultural) together with the castle since 1965.

Photo: Dario (CC BY-SA 1.0)

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