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Castle of Turégano

cultural property in Turégano, Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ5050435 ↗
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The Castle of Turégano (Spanish: Castillo de Turégano) is an ancient fortress located in the town of Turégano north of Segovia, Spain. The castle was founded on the site of a pre-existing fortress. Its structure is integrated into the adjacent church of San Miguel.

In 1585, the castle was used to imprison Antonio Pérez, the then-disgraced secretary of king Philip II. An attempt by a group led by Álamos de Barrientos to free him from captivity here failed.

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“Castle of Turégano” enters the record as cultural property in Turégano, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Castle, Turégano and cultural can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1585—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Castle, Turégano and cultural.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5050435. VIAF identifies the subject as 316732705. The Library of Congress control number is sh2014100062. Authority coordinates are 41.158, -4.005. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1585.

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This entry incorporates text from “Castle of Turégano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.