Oropesa

Oropesa lies south of the Sierra de Gredos beneath the castle and palace of the Álvarez de Toledo family. Henry II granted the lordship to García Álvarez de Toledo in the fourteenth century, and his descendants made the town their principal residence. They rebuilt the old palace and raised a new castle, placing their arms on its keep. Later generations enlarged the residence with a new palace and a passage to the parish church, completed in the early seventeenth century.