Gálvez

It is the most important building in our municipality. It is a church with three naves separated by semicircular arches with brick voussoirs. The ceiling has a lowered, octagonal vault on pendentives, decorated with plaster, forming a square space with semicircular arches on which the whole is supported. The altar is a large niche with a barrel vault. The entire chancel, transept and aisles are pilastered with a prominent 18th century cornice, while the central nave is possibly earlier (16th century), as is the tower. At the foot of the chancel is a chancel suspended by three simple concrete pillars, below which is a polychrome coffered ceiling. Inside the church, the granite baptismal font in Gothic style, decorated with gallons and balls, is particularly noteworthy. The south and west doorways are later, with a lintelled door with granite voussoirs. The late neo-Mudéjar style tower from the 19th century , located at the foot of the square floor plan, is built of masonry and brick. A tall body rests on an ashlar base, decorated on each front with blind arches of six pointed arches. Above this upper part, another body with pairs of pointed arches to house the bells, blinded on one of the fronts. Above this, a smaller octagonal body with segmental arches and an octagonal roof was added later. The clock dates from 1902, the four dials break the upper cornice. During the restoration of 1827, a large part of the ceilings and decorations had to be hidden.

It is a two-storey building with a colonnade and a continuous balcony. On the first floor there are several windows with lintel, jambs and granite sardinals, the grilles are wrought iron without decoration. On the first floor, there are three wooden windows that give access to the large balcony that rests on the lower porch, which is closed with an undecorated wrought iron grille separated by granite pillars with ball finials. The supporting columns are Doric and are topped with large footings and a prominent cornice, all made of granite. The façade is topped by wooden corbels and has a hipped roof with curved tiles. It is in a good state of preservation and was restored in 2002, with a stone uncovering, original wooden floor and coffered ceiling. A highlight of this building is the Plenary Hall, a work worthy of a visit.

Located in Calle de Los Cristos is this three-nave hermitage made of masonry and Toledan masonry. The doorway faces east and is accessed by three brick steps and granite ashlars. The façade is crowned by a belfry with a single semicircular arch made of brick where a bell is located. On the north façade is a second door with a wooden lintel and brick-reinforced jambs. It has a gabled roof with curved tiles. It is very altered due to recent restorations. It was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and its last restoration dates back to 1981 when work was carried out to uncover the stonework throughout the temple, removing the whitewash that was present on all the walls.

The rollo or pillory was the symbol of the jurisdiction of a town and was granted to the places by the exemption of the jurisdiction in another town, or by the direct concession in the formation of a lordship. The recovery of the Gálvez justice roll began with the discovery that some pieces of granite, found during the demolition of the house called "La Posada", adjacent to the old prison, according to 1882 plans of the National Geographic Institute, could belong to the monument whose nomenclature gives its name to the street. The public space created around this urban development project speaks of a past, of the history of the village of Gálvez, where traders, artisans, farmers and stockbreeders conducted their business around this symbol of justice. The recovery of the Gálvez justice roll is of great importance, as it is the only Gothic roll in the Montes de Toledo region, and its formal characteristics are more similar to the rolls and picotas of the Sierra de San Vicente region than to those preserved in the Montes de Toledo.

Some 4 km to the N.W. of the village are the remains of a castle dating from between the 13th and 14th centuries. The original fortification had a quadrilateral ground plan with semicircular corner towers, of which only three are still standing. The fourth tower and all the curtains have disappeared, most probably as a result of the building's use as a quarry. A study of the aerial photograph reveals the existence of a large keep in the centre of the west wall, which projects outwards in the manner of the Albarran towers. Its location on a flat terrain and the typology of the fortress suggest that it is a late construction linked to the late medieval feudal phenomenon. Perhaps its abandonment and subsequent ruin is due to the construction of a fortified house in the main square of Gálvez, next to the church. To the N.W. of the castle, on the hill of Santa Brígida, you can see the foundations that formed the ground plan of the razed hermitage of the same name, with a hall plan and semicircular apse, measuring approximately 15x6 m.

Next to the parish church, and forming part of a manor house from the modern period, the remains of a strong house with corner towers and masonry work are preserved. Also visible is the upper third of a tower built of taped masonry that today forms part of the estate's courtyard. Its beginnings date back to the 15th century albeit with extensive renovations.

16th-17th century mansion in popular baroque style. It is a large house between party walls with an interior central courtyard and a façade facing the church square. The ground floor has a central doorway with stone jambs and lintelled arch and two symmetrical side windows, while the upper floor has a balcony over the door and four windows. All the windows have grilles and the balcony has a wrought-iron window frame at the back. The facing is in the Toledan style, with lime and brickwork between the bricks, with the lintel decoration of the windows in a simple apalmetada form. Gable roof. Masonry and brickwork of Toledo. During interior renovation work carried out a few years ago, wheat and bean seeds were discovered in the hollow of a wall, confirming the use of the site as a granary.

Popular baroque manor house from the 17th century. It has a rectangular floor plan between party walls and occupies a large plot with a frontage of about twenty metres to the church square. Masonry masonry masonry in Toledo style, on a granite ashlar plinth perforated only by the window-ventilation in the basements. In the centre of the façade is the gate framed by granite jambs stacked in well-cut ashlars, and sober capitals supporting the monolithic lintel. The metal supports of a balcony rest on it. On both sides, the spans are symmetrically distributed. On the ground floor there are three latticed windows on each side, separated by granite ashlar boxes. The main floor is separated from the ground floor by a brick cornice. On this floor, on axis with the lower bays, there is a tall window and two square windows on either side of the central balcony. The windows have highlighted brick keystones.

Building from 1903, with three façades, two floors and a party wall, which currently houses the municipal theatre-auditorium. On the upper floor, the windows are also semicircular but somewhat smaller than the lower ones, with marked imposts and simpler decoration. The front, which forms the corner, consists of two lower and two upper windows similar to those of the side walls, the upper windows having the sills decorated with brickwork of neo-Mudéjar geometry. The lower part of this wall is separated from the upper part by cornices with dentils formed by rows of staggered bricks, with geometric ceramic motifs between them. The upper part is topped by a stepped gable with two attic ventilation openings in the centre.

Agricultural work required places of refuge for shepherds and farmers. In Gálvez, until very recently, huts made of reeds could be seen. Inside, everything was arranged around the "hogueril" or hearth where the fire was made and over which the cauldron hung from the wheel. Around it, there were cots or sleeping places that were raised from the ground and had a frame of ropes on which the mattress was placed. Farmers, on the other hand, needed more stable accommodation, especially at certain times of the year when farm work was more intensive. Working from sunrise to sunset and the distance between some farmlands and the town centre meant that they had to stay in the countryside for long periods of time. This work was usually concentrated in five-day periods, hence the name "quinterías", or "quinterías", given to the labour sheds.

Located to the north of the town, the aqueduct dates from the early 20th century and its purpose was to supply water. It has fifteen openings, the central one with a lowered arch and higher than the rest, which are semicircular. The aqueduct is made of masonry and concrete arches, with corners highlighted with ashlars. One end of the building has a square floor plan with imposts, a hipped roof and a small window to the north with a window for the mill.