The fortress towers over the near to the left bank of the Guadiana River in the city of Medellin, intersection of the roads between Merida and La Serena hill. The origin of the town's Roman when they became, in the year 74, a camp in fixed settlement. There is also documentation of the Muslim era signed by Al-Bakri in the tenth century or Al-Idrisi in the XII attesting that the castle was heavily populated; this time preserves a splendid double tank ship. Later it was occupied alternately by Christians and Arabs until Fernando III reconquered definitively in 1234.
The fourteenth century took a toll on its structure due to continuing unrest between Castilian kings and nobles coming up to its total destruction by order of Peter the Cruel due to a matter of skirts. Henry II ordered to build it again in 1537 being remodeled during the second half of the fifteenth century by the Count of Medellin, Don Rodrigo Portocarrero. Clashes between Henry IV and his brother the Infante Don Alfonso, and the succession conflict between Isabella and Juana la Beltraneja, also left their mark on the strength works to improve their defensive and improve its habitability conditions. Later it was used as a cemetery for the town for many years.
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