Calatrava La Nueva (link)
Calatrava
la Nueva (Sacro-convento Castillo de Calatrava la Nueva) is a
medieval castle and convent situated on the high hill across the
valley of Alacranejo, within the municipality of Aldea del Rey, near
Almagro, in the province of Ciudad Real, Spain.
Looking
for a convenient location for a new headquarters the
Brotherhood of Calatrava, a group of warrior monks whose aim was to
drive the Muslims from the Spanish peninsula built Calatrava
La Nueva. They moved in 1217
The
castle was both a defensive structure as well as a monastery.
Thus,
the original site became known as "Calatrava la Vieja"
("Old Calatrava") and the new site as Calatrava la Nueva
(“New Calatrava”).
Across
the valley on the opposite hill is another castle called Salvatierra,
originally constructed in the 10th century by the Moors on the site
of a Roman fort. (today
privately owned.)
…....
Confiscated
by King Joseph (1808), re-established by Ferdinand VII at the
Restoration (1814), the possessions of Calatrava were finally
dissipated in the general secularization of 1838.The
castle survived until then as such.
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