En un regard
Le château en bref
The Castle of Los Arcos rises in the middle of the dehesas, on the outskirts of Almendral, in the south-west of the province of Badajoz. This late seigneurial fortress was built in the 15th and 16th centuries at the behest of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, of the House of Feria, which then dominated the region; its design recalls that of the castles of Feria and Nogales. Built of masonry, dressed stone and brick, it adopts a rectangular plan flanked by squat corner towers around a central keep, a typical layout for fortified residences of the late Middle Ages. It is said to have been remodelled after the Comuneros revolt. The surroundings have yielded the remains of a Gothic-Mudéjar hermitage and the medieval bridge of the Castillejo. A privately owned property still lived in, it is not open to visitors and is best appreciated from the outside.