Inner bailey or central courtyard, former cloister, Mora de Rubielos Castle, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
Notice the siege machines on display!
Palace Castle of the Fernández de Heredia, XIV Century (Levantine Gothic)
The biggest castle you can imagine.
The Castle of Mora de Rubielos is a representative monument of Mediterranean Gothic located in the highest part of the town on a rocky promontory.
The Castle is a massive masonry construction with an irregular quadrangular floor plan with four towers, a porticoed parade ground and a cloister gallery. It occupies an area of 4,300 m2 (67 x 65 m.). The intra-wall access ramp is arranged in a zig-zag pattern and has loopholes along its route, revealing its defensive function. Flanked by the door, a slight slope with steps leads us to:
Porticoed parade ground; cloister when it was a convent. It has a total floor area of 1,400 m2 (38 x 37 m.). With an almost irregular square floor plan and whose pointed arches have different dimensions. In some capitals there is decoration of animals or monsters, but they are very deteriorated.
stables Stables. Basement which is accessed through a slanted arch, next to the angle formed by the walls. The descent is made by a gentle stepped slope, which at one time was made of land. This leads to a wide space that once supported the cattle mangers to the right and left.
Stonecutter marks. They can still be seen engraved on some voussoirs that build the transverse arches closest to the entrance (and in other rooms of the castle) and are the signature of the stonemasons who worked on their carving.
Large dining room or for various uses, depending on whether the castle went through days of peace or days of strife, which were common in the Middle Ages.
Anteroom, which could be with a bit of imagination, armory, scriptorium and wardrobe.
Today it houses part of the Ethnographic Museum, they are pieces obtained exclusively in the same town.
Bedroom. Main bedroom of the Fernández de Heredia castle. This room is housed in the hollow of the position tower. This one, offering very thick walls, as can be seen by the depth of the window and also an armored ceiling with twice the number of beams that it would normally require.
the dungeon Great security prison The Great Staircase, Tower-Gate Outside the Walls, Helicoidal Staircase, Sacristy in the Conventual Stage, Great Room of 284 m2, First and Second floor basements. Burial Crypt, Crypt.and Chapel.
Declared a National Monument in 1931 (the town will be declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1978), its restoration began in 1972 with the removal of rubble, cleaning and consolidation of arches and slabs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_de_Rubielos
Inner bailey or central courtyard, former cloister, Mora de Rubielos Castle, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
Notice the siege machines on display!
Palace Castle of the Fernández de Heredia, XIV Century (Levantine Gothic)
The biggest castle you can imagine.
The Castle of Mora de Rubielos is a representative monument of Mediterranean Gothic located in the highest part of the town on a rocky promontory.
The Castle is a massive masonry construction with an irregular quadrangular floor plan with four towers, a porticoed parade ground and a cloister gallery. It occupies an area of 4,300 m2 (67 x 65 m.). The intra-wall access ramp is arranged in a zig-zag pattern and has loopholes along its route, revealing its defensive function. Flanked by the door, a slight slope with steps leads us to:
Porticoed parade ground; cloister when it was a convent. It has a total floor area of 1,400 m2 (38 x 37 m.). With an almost irregular square floor plan and whose pointed arches have different dimensions. In some capitals there is decoration of animals or monsters, but they are very deteriorated.
stables Stables. Basement which is accessed through a slanted arch, next to the angle formed by the walls. The descent is made by a gentle stepped slope, which at one time was made of land. This leads to a wide space that once supported the cattle mangers to the right and left.
Stonecutter marks. They can still be seen engraved on some voussoirs that build the transverse arches closest to the entrance (and in other rooms of the castle) and are the signature of the stonemasons who worked on their carving.
Large dining room or for various uses, depending on whether the castle went through days of peace or days of strife, which were common in the Middle Ages.
Anteroom, which could be with a bit of imagination, armory, scriptorium and wardrobe.
Today it houses part of the Ethnographic Museum, they are pieces obtained exclusively in the same town.
Bedroom. Main bedroom of the Fernández de Heredia castle. This room is housed in the hollow of the position tower. This one, offering very thick walls, as can be seen by the depth of the window and also an armored ceiling with twice the number of beams that it would normally require.
the dungeon Great security prison The Great Staircase, Tower-Gate Outside the Walls, Helicoidal Staircase, Sacristy in the Conventual Stage, Great Room of 284 m2, First and Second floor basements. Burial Crypt, Crypt.and Chapel.
Declared a National Monument in 1931 (the town will be declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1978), its restoration began in 1972 with the removal of rubble, cleaning and consolidation of arches and slabs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_de_Rubielos