{"id":40,"date":"2017-05-10T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T07:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.3.200\/torresdoallo\/\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2024-12-01T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T09:22:10","slug":"castelo-do-allo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/historia\/castelo-do-allo\/","title":{"rendered":"”Castle of Allo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before the first Galician manor house\u2014the Torres do Allo\u2014existed, there was a great castle nearby, at the top of a hill. Today nothing remains aside from stones that are being studied by archaeologists to determine its position and exact age. However, the name of the mountain, called \u2018big castle,\u2019 already gives us a clue that it was precisely here that this fortification of the House of the Altamira was located.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nDrawing of the Castle of Allo \u2022 \u00a9 Jos\u00e9 Manuel Y\u00e1\u00f1ez.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nDrawing of the Irmandi\u00f1o revolts<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1455 the counts Lope S\u00e1nchez de Ulloa y Moscoso y Aldonza de Mendoza<\/strong>, sister of the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, founded the County of Altamira. It is one of the most powerful families of the Galician nobility<\/strong>, owners of several fortresses, houses and castles, as well as land and fiefdoms since the 9th century. But in 1467 they would see their patrimony threatened by the Irmandi\u00f1o revolts, the greatest European social revolution of the fifteenth century<\/strong><\/a>. The constant abuses of the great noble houses ended up provoking the peasant uprising that would fight against the landowners by toppling their towers and castles<\/strong>. The Altamira Towers and Castle of Allo <\/strong>are among the 130 strongholds believed to have been destroyed by brotherhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Although the Irmandi\u00f1os were defeated in 1469, and many fortifications were ordered to to rebuilt\u2014going so far as to use the labor of the insurrectionists themselves\u2014the Castle of Allo would not last much longer. The Catholic Monarchs<\/strong><\/a>, who saw their authority threatened by the great houses of the Galician nobility, ordered all fortresses to be destroyed. The documents say that the demolition of the Castle of Allo was ordered to be carried out around 1487. However the Altamira family implemented an impeccable strategic move to continue maintaining its influence under the new crown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Counts of Altamira not only accepted the destruction of the Castle of Allo<\/strong>, but also moved their residence to Madrid in order to be closer to the Royal Court. But in the lands that now belong to the City of Zas, they would leave one of their daughters as the owner of Allo<\/strong> to continue governing the region. Berenguela S\u00e1nchez de Moscoso<\/strong> married the one who would become the first of the Riob\u00f3o: G\u00f3mes de Riob\u00f3o Vilardefrancos, an important vassal of the House of Altamira, and surely the administrator of the castle in the absence of its owners. For her, they ordered the so-called \u2018house of the Allo\u2019 (referring to \u2018ayo,\u2019 servant of the noble houses) to be built below the plain<\/strong>, and then began the construction of what we now call the Torres do Allo<\/strong>, which would for fifteen generations be known as the House of the Riob\u00f3o.<\/p>\n

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Before the first Galician manor house\u2014the Torres do Allo\u2014existed, there was a great castle nearby, at the top of a hill. Today nothing remains aside from stones that are being studied by archaeologists to determine its position and exact age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/2118"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torresdoallo.gal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}