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Castle of Monzón de Campos

Spain

Heritage status
bien de interés cultural
Location
Monzón de Campos
Coordinates
42.11159°, -4.49412°
Links
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Castle of Monzón de Campos in Spain
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Description

Monzón de Campos Castle, situated in that town in the province of Palencia, is placed on top of a hill from which the surrounding fields are dominated. It was one of the two that the town once had, since the other, which stood on a small hill near the river, was gradually swept away by the currents of the Carrión.

Political centre of the County of Monzón, which in its beginnings comprised a large part of the east of the province of Palencia, in the north the possessions of the county reached the lands of La Ojeda and Mudá, extending practically to the present province of Cantabria. The County of Monzón was situated between the counties of Saldaña and Castile.

From this castle the political and commercial activity of all the lands between the Pisuerga river and its confluence with the Arlanza river was controlled, bordering the County of Castile, with the comarcas of Brañosera, Barruelo de Santullán and Aguilar de Campoo in the Montaña Palentina lying on the Castilian side, and the comarcas of Mudá, Cervera de Pisuerga and Salinas de Pisuerga in the County of Monzón.

Below the Arlanza, El Cerrato palentino lay within Monzón, excluding the surroundings of Palenzuela. In the province of Valladolid the comarca of Campo de Peñafiel was integrated into Monzón, and in the province of Segovia the surroundings of Sacramenia formed the extreme of the county.

Machine-translated from “Castillo de Monzón de Campos” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Castle of Monzón de Campos ranks #9,153 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #542 of the 646 mapped in Spain. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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