A fantasy castle

Like the Roman Arch of Medinaceli, the legendary castle of Torija, is another of those metaphorical lighthouses, used as a reference by travelers and pilgrims who left behind the arid sunny days of La Mancha, getting lost, either along the endless paths of Old Castilla or in the direction of two legendary cities, such as Aragonese Cesaraugusta, that is, Zaragoza and Barcina or Barcelona of the ingenious hidalgo, Don Quixote de la Mancha, on whose beach he was painfully shot by the Knight of the Green Coat.

Located on a hill, at the beginning of that magical region, known as the Alcarria -where the chronicles of the writer Camilo José Cela are still remembered- in the same place where not a few historians locate the presence of a Templar convent, the castle of Torija , after years of rehabilitation, returns to show, almost intrinsically, the beauty of an architecture, which, despite responding to purely military patterns, also seduces by its fantasy design, provoking the admiration of all those who contemplate it.

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