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The northern tower of the Pazo do Allo<\/strong> eor Torre Norte\u2014is also called the \u2018Torre Viexa,\u2019 as it appears in documents preserved by the Riob\u00f3o family for five centuries. The reason for the name is evident: it is the first of the towers built<\/strong> in the architectural group that makes up the Torres do Allo. Boasting a late or final-Gothic style<\/a><\/strong>, it\u2019s construction dates back to the late 15th century by Alonso G\u00f3mez de Riob\u00f3o, son of Berenguela S\u00e1nchez de Altamira and G\u00f3mes de Riob\u00f3o y Vilandefrancos<\/a><\/strong>; the first inhabitants of the Pazo do Allo. The Torre Viexa, two stories high, is closely linked to the \u2018fortress house\u2019\u2014a quadrangular thick-walled structure also called the \u2018casa do allo\u2019 from which its construction was supported. Over the course of many years this annex house was probably used as housing for the Riob\u00f3o\u2019s servants.<\/p>\n

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Despite being a civil construction, stately and palatial, the Torre Norte retains many defensive elements of military architecture<\/strong>. Its extraordinary massive walls, structural austerity arrow-slit windows<\/a><\/strong> from which spears and arrows could be fired, coats of arms, and the existence of a single reinforced entrance door confirm that the Viexa Tower is a kind of civil replica of what the castle of Allo would have been like<\/a><\/strong>. However, the tower is ornamentally rich<\/strong>, cwith ogee and mixtilinear arches, decorated with vegetative motifs, gargoyles and splendid windows of Hispanic-Flemish influence. Patent here is an ntention of artistic transcendence as the region\u2019s intellectual beacon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\n“Torre Viexa \u2022 \u00a9 Jos\u00e9 Manuel Y\u00e1\u00f1ez.”<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Still today, approaching from the oak grove entrance<\/a><\/strong>, it is impressive to contemplate the set formed by the North Tower (on the right), the central building<\/a><\/strong> of a pre-Renaissance facade and the South Tower or \u2018Torre Nueba<\/a><\/strong> built almost two hundred Years after the first..<\/p>\n

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The northern tower of the Pazo do Allo eor Torre Norte\u2014is also called the \u2018Torre Viexa,\u2019 as it appears in documents preserved by the Riob\u00f3o family for five centuries. The reason for the name is evident: it is the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/2098"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}