Puebla de Alcocer Castle is an impressive castle built during the 12th and 14th centuries. It was restored in the 16th century by Don Gutierre de Sotomayor, Master of the Order of Alcántara, thanks to the authorization of the license of the King of Castilla Juan II.
It is located in an elongated rocky mass, at the highest point of Puebla de Alcocer, where rivalsmovements were monitored for miles around. Today we look over the regions of La Serena and La Siberia and the fortification can be seen from various points.
The castle silhouette, the majestic Tower of Homage, the cylindrical floor,where at the top, you can see it decorated with the coat of arms of the families Zúñiga and Sotomayor.
It can be visited on foot and one can explore the inner wall, the courtyard of arms and the Tower of Homage, where from its height, you can see a unique landscape. This is considered to be one of the largest reservoirs in Spain, the Reservoirs of La Serena, and Orellana.
References:Doune Castle was originally built in the thirteenth century, then probably damaged in the Scottish Wars of Independence, before being rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340–1420), the son of King Robert II of Scots, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. Duke Robert"s stronghold has survived relatively unchanged and complete, and the whole castle was traditionally thought of as the result of a single period of construction at this time. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany"s son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house.
In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn"s rising in the mid-17th century, and during the Jacobite risings of the late 17th century and 18th century.