In Romanesque style is one of the few castles of the time that remain standing in Spain. Its floor plan is polygonal, elongated, seven-sided and all of it is built in ashlar stone. Nothing remains of the battlements of the walls but you can see the cylindrical cubes in the center and corners of the walls. It has two access doors, the main one, which originally had a pointed arch and faces south, was protected by two strong cubes with defensive elements. The homage tower, at the eastern end of the wall, has a square floor plan and had four floors, on the ground floor was the chapel whose semicircular head forms the main cube of the castle. The second door, smaller and facing north, gave access to the second floor and the rest of the floors. The existence of corbels, grooves and mechinales within the wall give the impression that there were also rooms and rooms for the use of the guard, stables, warehouses... Outside the castle you can see remains of what could have been the wall that surrounded and protected the old town of Davalillo.
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