Las Navas

Las Navas del Marqués lies among the wooded uplands east of Ávila. Its castle-palace of Magalia combines the forms of a fortress with the comforts and decoration of a noble residence. Pedro Dávila and María de Córdoba, the first marquises of Las Navas, ordered it built in 1533 around an older defensive tower. The new palace expressed the standing of its owners while preserving a reminder of the medieval stronghold on which it was founded.