Castillo de Castro Caldelas

Today: Castelo dos Condes de Lemos, Castro Caldelas

Place: Castro Caldelas
Kind: Castle
Built: c. 1501 to 1560
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The fortress of the counts of Lemos, which Pedro Fernández de Castro built between 1336 and 1343. The Irmandiños partly destroyed it between 1467 and 1469, and its reconstruction, which produced the residential wing of the 16th century, was finished in 1560. The French burned it in 1809; today it houses a cultural centre with a library, an exhibition room and an ethnographic museum.

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