Castelo de Vilalba

The Castle Vilalba, additionally known as the Andrade Castle Tower or the Andrade Tower, placed subsequent to the Square and the Church of Santa Maria, within the historical middle of the village, municipality of Vilalba inside the province of Lugo, Autonomous Community of Galicia, in Spain. They best have this tower, the result of the reconstruction undertaken within the fifteenth century via Count de Vilalba, Diego de Andrade. The desire of this vicinity is attached to its strategic fee, because here were the Northern Way and the previous Royal Way of Betanzos and A Coruna. From the 11^th century, Vilalba belonged to the Castro circle of relatives.

Later, inside the context of the civil war between Henry II of Castile and Pedro I of Castile, this final one donated the city to, at that second its best friend, Fernan Perez de Andrade II, the Bon. Ferdinand left the party of Pedro I and took refuge inside the fortification of La Rochelle, France. With the victory of Henry II, the new sovereign granted the Andrade, amongst other domain names, the owner of Vilalba. In the 15th century, within the context of the Irmandinha revolt, these attacked the castle of Vilalba, then within the palms of Nuno Freire de Andrade, the Mau, conquering and demolishing it. The castle could best be rebuilt while the Catholic Kings granted the county of Vilalba to Diego de Andrade.