Castle of Los Ares

Los Ares is a curious castle.

It's not very ancient. Probably of the 15th C.

Built in a secluded place, in the middle of a small depression, it doesn't dominate any vista.

The real vista is the castle's ruins themselves!

Bonita foto Alberto, el cielo como siempre muy bueno, quizas el suelo no es muy adecuado para la foto. Saludos!!

I LOVE this, Alberto. The sky is fabulous, and you've got great detail in the foreground AND background. Nice work, as usual!! :-)

Beautiful

Que luz!! El cielo impresionante y en mi humilde opinion las texturas y lineas del suelo le vienen muy bien. Me gusta mucho.

Good use of foreground and sky to draw attention to the castle. Around that time in England castles became more like fortified homes rather than miltary strongholds. Was that the case in Spain too?

Great composition with a wonderful sky! Another one of your great castle shots! Congrats again!

Magistral! muy buena composicion, tonos, contraste, luz... muy buena.

Cordiales saludos.

In Spain at that time both cases existed though the residential type were rarer (in any case see an example here, located some 35 kms to the north of Madrid: El Real de Manzanares )

But Los Ares was in the border between Aragon and Castille and the two kingdoms were fighting each other well until the second half of 15th C.

Besides, they had the threat of the serfs who from time to time realised they were kind of abused... and reacted!