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The castle of the Zúñiga family of Encinas

Encinas de Esgueva, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

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The castle of the Zúñiga family of Encinas

Monument · Encinas de Esgueva, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

Image of Encinas de Esgueva, not of the place itself.

Diego López de Zúñiga, Duke of Béjar, began in 1394 the fortress that is preserved today: an inner enclosure, a sloping barbican and a moat crossed by a drawbridge, all in ashlar of good stonework and almost without decoration.

Photo: Juan Pablo Zumel Arranz (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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