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From Vellosillo to Villafuerte

Villafuerte, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

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From Vellosillo to Villafuerte

Historical milestone · Villafuerte, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

Image of Villafuerte, not of the place itself.

Around 1473 Garci Franco de Toledo, a member of a converso family that had bought the lordship, undertook the building of the castle and changed the name of the place, which until then was called Vellosillo, to Villafuerte.

hacia 1473

Photo: Rowanwindwhistler (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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