Public building · Valladolid
Castillo y Archivo General de Simancas
Today: Archivo General de Simancas, Simancas
- Place
- Valladolid
- Kind
- Public building
- Built
- c. 1467 to 1600
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The fortress that Admiral Alonso Enríquez rebuilt between 1467 and 1480, according to a document published in 1917, and where Carlos I founded the archive of the Crown of Castile in 1540. Juan de Herrera and Francisco de Mora remodelled it in the 16th century to give it its present look, although the wall, towers and bridges are of the late 15th century. It is now the Archivo General de Simancas, and after the works of 1999 to 2007 the chapel and one research room can be visited.
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