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Castle of Batres

Batres, Comarca Sur, Madrid

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Castle of Batres

Monument · Batres, Comarca Sur, Madrid

The castle of Batres, or casa-fuerte, is a fortified palace of the 15th and 16th centuries standing on a rise at the boundary with Toledo, surrounded by a natural moat and a grove watered by streams that flow into the Guadarrama. It was the residence of the lords of Batres, among them the poet Garcilaso de la Vega, who inherited the title from his mother; it later passed to the counts of Oñate and the marquesses of Riscal. Built in fired brick on flint foundations, it is arranged around the keep, with an Isabelline Gothic gateway and the coat of arms of the Laso de la Vega y Guzmán family, and a Plateresque courtyard with a double gallery, Toledan columns and a Gothic well. The historic-artistic ensemble, protected since 1970, also includes the Fuente de Garcilaso; it was restored by the architect Luis Moreno de Cala between 1959 and 1970, after he acquired it in the 1970s.

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