Description
The castle of Albanchez de Mágina dominates and presides the village, which is located on the first ridge of the Sierra de los Castillejos. Despite its small dimensions and its inner narrows, its arriseach position makes it extremely difficult to access. Of presumably Christian origin, its construction was made with argamasa and it had to rise late, in the Middle Ages, in the early 14th century, as an alternative to another Muslim castle from which there are only remains, built with tapial in the lower and closer to the people.
The castle was linked to the Order of Santiago, which created the command of Bedmar and Albanchez. What is preserved from it is its alcazarejo, built with masonry, which consists of two small, impressive nuclei because of its exterior appearance and the closing of the rock on which it sits, but with little internal capacity to house troops and beings. The highest core is a narrow rectangular platform that enables a small interior space. The entrance opens to the terrace of a rectangular floor turret that housed two cameras: one top, covered with a half-barrel vault, now melted, and one lower, a aljibe, with slightly pointed vault and remains of the stucco that covered it. The castle also had a small courtyard of triangular weapons with almond parapet and saetera windows, a square terrace with albarrana to defend over the cliff, protective walls, today practically destroyed, and rounded corners outside as it was a calatravo castle. It was declared Good of Cultural Interest in 1985.
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