Galisteo

Galisteo stands above the river Jerte within a distinctive circuit of walls built of rounded stones. Raised under the Almohads in the thirteenth century, the fortifications protected a settlement that became the centre of a lordship after its conquest by Alfonso IX of León. In 1429 John II granted the lordship to García Fernández Manrique. His heirs became counts of Galisteo, and the title was raised to a dukedom in 1631.