Puebla de Montalbán

La Puebla de Montalbán lies near the Tagus west of Toledo, its main square overlooked by the palace of the counts of Montalbán. Juan Pacheco began the palace in the late fifteenth century, and successive generations of his family continued the work. In 1526 Diego Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus, died there. The town was also the birthplace of Fernando de Rojas, author of La Celestina, one of the great works of Spanish literature at the close of the Middle Ages.