Zuheros Castle, locally known as Castillo de Zuheros, lies on a rock in the village with the same name in the province of Córdoba in Spain.
It is possible that the first castle at this site was already built in the late 9th century to guard the road between Córdoba and Granada.
Zuheros Castle was probably built in the 11th or 12th century when the area was ruled by the Zirid dynasty.
The castle is somehow connected to a siege by St. Ferdinand III, King of Castile, but how I do not know. At some time Zuheros Castle was conquered by the Christians.
During the 14th century a palatial building in Renaissance style was added by the Lords of the House of Córdoba. This palace is said to be designed by the architect Hernán Ruiz I.
This was all the historical info I was able to find, so if you know more; please mail me! Opposite the castle, across the little square, sits another fortification. I don't know if that was part of the castle at some time.
At present Zuheros Castle can be visited for a small fee. Sadly enough when I visited it was too late, so it was closed. Too bad, this is a lovely little castle, but I enjoyed a great sunset!
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Castillo de Alcaudete is a castle in Alcaudete, in the province of Jaén, Spain. The castle was built by the Arabs over the remains of a previous Roman fortification and taken by the Christians in 1085 during the reign of Alfonso VI. For almost three hundred years thereafter, the castle kept changing hands until 1340 when the Christians took it over. The design is polygon in shape, adjusted to the terrain escarpments. The structure is surmounted by six towers, including the Tower of Homage, which has a door on the north side, guarded by two additional towers. The castle is restored and in good condition. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1949.

Castillo de Alcaudete

It is located next to what until the XVIII century was the neuralgic center of the city: “El Coso”, a square used as a market, place of parties, bullfights, executions and military parace until the construction of the Plaza Nueva in 1618. The building, was declared National Monument with order date of June, 3th 1931, for have been prison of the last king of Granada, Boabdil. It presents features that evidence the different vicissitudes and changes of the owners, the historical circumstances that it went through the Cordoba’s south of general way and particularly, Lucena.
Its initial structure is a square floor approximately, dating from the XI century when Lucena was known as Eliossana, the city of the Jewish, with towers in the angles of which conserves intact the called “las Damas”, orientated at N.E., solid and hardly superior to the height of the wall. Similar to the above, although it is not complete, is the tower of the Coso, towards the S.W.
Afterwards, they were added in the other corners of the set, replaced to those mentioned similar towers, the tower of the Homage, of square floor, in the N.W. angle empty in its total height. It presents in one of their faces, sculpted in a block of stone, the weapons shield of the Martinez de Argote, who received Lucena in Majesty Manor of the Felipe II king. As peculiarity of this tower, is that it was the prison of the last king of Granada, Boabdil “El chico”, after being captured in the battle of Lucena in 1483. Opposite to it, there is the octagonal floor of the tower of the Moral, which give the name to the castle. It is empty only on top of the hallway, where it was places probably in the XVIII century, a capital of Arabian tile.
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Moral Castle


El castillo de Torreparedones, localizado en plena campiña cordobesa, en concreto en los términos municipales de Baena y Castro del Río (Córdoba, España), responde al tipo de fortaleza medieval de planta simple, cuadrada y con torreones en las esquinas. Los primeros datos de las fuentes hacen referencia al siglo XIII, momento en el que se documenta uno de los cambios de propiedad, mientras que el último documentado es ya del siglo XV.
Esta fortificación se encuentra inserta dentro del yacimiento de Torreparedones, cuyo origen se remonta a época calcolítica, desarrollándose hasta época medieval, con algunos hiatos.
Descripción
Este castillo presenta planta de forma cuadrada, con muros de mampostería, realizados con piedras labradas dispuestas en hileras fundamentalmente a tizón. Las esquinas se refuerzan con torres cuadradas, en general macizas en su base y con cámaras abovedadas en su parte superior. La que se conserva en mejor estado es la ubicada en el ángulo sureste. Esta se realiza en la misma fábrica que el resto del castillo, y actualmente se observan en tres de sus caras la apertura de un vano, e internamente consta de dos cuerpos, en este caso el inferior no es macizo, sino que se hallan dos estancias con restos de una bóveda baída encofrada de mortero como cubierta.
Por otro lado sólo se destaca la presencia de un aljibe abovedado en el interior del recinto, en concreto en el patio de armas, mientras que al exterior el castillo en sí mismo se refuerza con una línea de muralla, realizada en mampostería con piedras más o menos regulares y unidas con mortero.
Historia
En cuanto a los datos históricos, las fuentes hablan de que dicho castillo tuvo población árabe y cristiana hasta 1386. En el año 1269 Alfonso X el Sabio lo dona, gracias a los servicios prestados, a Fernán Alonso de Lastres, alcalde de Baena, pero posteriormente el hijo de éste lo vende al señor de Espejo y Castro el Viejo para pagar su rescate. Otra fecha puntual es el año 1328, en el que se tiene constancia de que el Consejo de Córdoba solicita que deje de estar en las manos de Pedro Díaz de Aguayo, momento en el que pasa a estar bajo la protección del alguacil mayor de Córdoba, Fernández Alvarez.
Los últimos datos históricos indican que a mediados del siglo XV Luis Portocarrero, señor de Palma, lo toma en nombre de Enrique IV de Castilla, pasando a manos de este último formalmente en el año 1469.
Conservación
En 2015 se restauró la torre del castillo y se hizo visitable al público, a la vez que se dispuso un mirador en la cubierta con vistas al yacimiento y a la campiña.