Tower of Don Fadrique in Seville capital

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Sevilla Tower of Don Fadrique in Seville capital

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Tower of Don Fadrique in Seville capital

After the conquest of Seville by Fernando III the saint, did to him the cast of the city of Seville, by distributing your terrains between the gentlemen that took part in the campaign. to the present male infant Fadrique, child of Fernando III and brother of Alphonse X the wise person, corresponds you an ancestral home westwards of Seville, near the Guadalquivir river. There Fadrique present offer raise a defensive tower, that it must be part of a palace. Account the legend that Fadrique present had loves with the widow of your father, Joan lady of the house of Pouthieu, which causes such a scandal that promotes the death of the male infant and the exile of Joan lady of the house. The fact is that the palace never raises to him and the tower, the tower of Don Fadrique, remains in the middle of an uncultivated terrain. It has the tower of Don Fadrique three floors, finished off for a cornice bounced and embattled. The ground floor is of stone and the other two of brick. In the soul it opens, in everyone of the faces, an ogival window of Gothic style.

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