Ariza

Ariza grew on the slopes beneath a castle guarding the frontier between Aragon and Castile. Its position made it a prize in repeated conflicts between the neighbouring kingdoms. Castilian forces took the fortress during the War of the Two Peters in 1362; Peter IV of Aragon later recovered it and sold it to Guillén de Palafox in 1381. The town and its dependent villages remained a seigneurial estate.