Torre de Castroverde

Castroverde, Spain, Spain

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Torre de Castroverde is a medieval tower from the 14th-15th centuries located in Castroverde, Lugo province, Galicia, northwestern Spain, serving as the main remnant of a larger quadrangular castle built over an ancient castro hillfort.

Originally held by the powerful Lemos family and later the Castro lineage by 1328, it saw construction around the early 15th century coinciding with the local lordship's founding, with reforms attributed to Sancho Sánchez de Ulloa, Count of Monterrey, late 15th century, before passing to the Osorio family until 1503 and the Count of Altamira in the 18th century. 

The standalone rectangular Torre del Homenaje measures 10.8 by 9.7 meters and rises 20 meters, featuring a high door, machicolations, a latrine, a paired window with a carved warrior image, and a crenellated terrace, surrounded by traces of corner round towers, an outer moat, a southern garita turret, and an internal cistern accessed via underground passages.