Albuquerque

Alburquerque stands near the Portuguese frontier beneath the imposing Castle of Luna. Its walls and towers recall the importance of this town in the long struggle to control the border between the Iberian kingdoms. The castle passed through the hands of powerful Castilian nobles, among them Álvaro de Luna and, from 1465, Beltrán de la Cueva. During the War of the Spanish Succession Portuguese forces held it from 1705 to 1716, adapting its defences with bastions for artillery.