castle moat with stone wall and vegetation
castle moat with drawbridge

Restoration of the moat of the Torreón de Arroyomolinos

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Consolidation works on the northern escarpment-pit

The Torreón de Arroyomolinos is a rectangular building with rounded corners on the outside, dating back to the Late Middle Ages. It was started around 1470 by Juan de Oviedo and was probably finished in the same decade by Gonzalo Chacón. It stands on a stone plinth, while the rest of the building is built of brick, giving it a rather sober appearance.

One of the building resources common to all these castles was the existence of a defensive perimeter around a square courtyard. This perimeter was made up of a wall that descended vertically like a cliff until it reached the bottom of the moat that surrounded it. It is built of solid brick joined with lime and sand mortar in Gothic-Mudejar style, following a style and construction technique similar to the nearby castles of Casarrubios del Monte and Batres.

As an archaeological or paleontological site declared a Site of Cultural Interest, this defensive complex is documented and the entire immediate surroundings of the tower have been the subject of various archaeological interventions and restorations from 1987 to 2007. The archaeological campaigns represented a change in the understanding of the tower, confirming that it was a main element within the fortified enclosure as part of a larger defensive system equipped with a moat and other small towers.