Castillo de Chinchón
Castle · Madrid south
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This castle-palace replaced an earlier fortress wrecked in the 1521 Comunero revolt; the Counts of Chinchón rebuilt it at the end of the 16th century as two interlocking quadrangular blocks with cylindrical corner towers. Archduke Charles's troops garrisoned it in 1705, Napoleonic forces burned it in 1808, and it later ran as an anisette liqueur factory. Privately owned, its interior is closed to visitors.