![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
"The site of the ancient Segontia ("dominating over the valley") of the Celtiberian Arevaci, now called Villavieja (“old town”), is half a league distant from the present Sigüenza. Livy mentions the town in his discussion of the wars of Cato with the Celtiberians.
The city fell under Roman, Visigothic, Moorish and Castilian rule.
Around 1123 it was taken by Bernard of Agen, its first bishop. Sigüenza played a large part in the civil wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The fortress palace of the bishops, an earlier Moorish qasbah, was captured in 1297 by the partisans of the Infantes de la Cerda, and in 1355 it was the prison of Blanche of Bourbon, consort of Peter of Castile. In 1465 Diego López of Madrid, having usurped the miter, fortified himself there." (Wikipedia)
Please e-mail me for permission if you'd like to make use of any of my photo's. Thanks.
ann | 07-Aug-2013 11:16 | |
William Barletta | 05-Feb-2013 15:00 | |
CM Kwan | 05-Feb-2013 12:36 | |
Graeme | 05-Feb-2013 10:29 | |
chris morton | 05-Feb-2013 07:50 | |
John Reynolds LRPS | 05-Feb-2013 06:18 | |
Anitta | 05-Feb-2013 05:52 | |
Gerard Koehl | 05-Feb-2013 05:43 | |
Dan Greenberg | 05-Feb-2013 05:29 | |
joseantonio | 05-Feb-2013 05:06 | |
Ali Majdfar | 05-Feb-2013 05:05 | |
Guest | 05-Feb-2013 05:02 | |
Guest | 05-Feb-2013 04:44 | |
Simon Chandler | 05-Feb-2013 04:07 | |
globalgadabout | 05-Feb-2013 03:19 | |
Mike H. | 05-Feb-2013 02:57 | |
Walter Otto Koenig | 05-Feb-2013 01:54 | |
Hank Vander Velde | 05-Feb-2013 00:52 | |
Jess. ( Lady.D.) | 05-Feb-2013 00:39 | |
Karen Stuebing | 05-Feb-2013 00:35 | |
Marcia Rules | 05-Feb-2013 00:32 | |
Frank Brault | 05-Feb-2013 00:19 | |
Don Mottershead | 05-Feb-2013 00:13 | |
Stephanie | 05-Feb-2013 00:11 | |
Jim Coffman | 04-Feb-2013 23:31 | |
janescottcumming | 04-Feb-2013 23:18 | |