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Tower of Éboli

Pinto, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

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Tower of Éboli

Monument · Pinto, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

Seigneurial tower of square plan, four storeys and rounded corners, raised around the middle of the fourteenth century by Íñigo López de Orozco. It served as a prison for nobles: Ana de Mendoza, princess of Éboli, arrested on 28 July 1579, was confined in it for six months, and later the secretary Antonio Pérez.

Photo: manuel m. v. from Valdemoro, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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