Mejorada

Castle

Medieval Bridge
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Telephone: 925 890 001
Web: https://www.mejorada.info/
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Email: mejorada@diputoledo.es
Its origin could be due to the ancient name given to its lands: Malpartida. This had its origin in boundary problems with Ávila as a result of a bad division of the land due to its uneven or insufficient extension. When in 1288 Sancho IV ceded these lands to Juan García de Toledo, the name was changed to Mejorada, either due to an increase in the surface area or because they had been donated for improvement. It is undoubtedly this character who founded the village and built the castle.
It is located in the geographical area bounded by the Tagus river to the south and the Tiétar valley to the north, in the area known as El Berrocal. The river Guadyerbas marks the northern boundary of the municipality, crossed by several streams. The natural environment of the area offers the visitor an ideal opportunity for hiking. There are several signposted routes such as the Guadyerbas or the Fuente de la Mora.
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It is located about 200 metres southeast of the village. Its construction is linked to the creation of the lordship of Mejorada at the end of the 13th century. Only a few sections of the east, south and part of the north and west walls are still standing. It has a quadrangular ground plan, with circular towers at the four corners. The main entrance is to the west, with a projecting keep with a quadrilateral ground plan. The walls are of masonry and brick. There are the remains of an antemural on the west side, and in the wall there are the remains of a room with a pointed brick dome.
The church of Mejorada was built under the patronage of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, dating from the early 15th to the 16th century. It is mainly made of stone and lime. It is a temple with a Latin cross plan with a single central nave and transept covered with a coffered ceiling of pair and knuckle. The presbytery and the rectangular main chapel. With a tower on the footboard of two sections, of different chronology. The main doorway to the south with a semicircular arch in Renaissance style. Of great interest is its main altarpiece consisting of four sections with hand-painted panels. The central nave and the chapel are separated by a Plateresque-style (16th century) gate with a fine and elegant frieze, as well as wrought-iron ornaments and twisted balusters.
It is a rectangular temple with a semicircular arched doorway, all of it with a sober classicism. It has been renovated several times. It consists of a small nave, with a semicircular arch niche at the head of the nave, where the altar is located. This is covered with a flat roof of vaults.
La Atalaya is located at the top of the Atalaya hill (578 m), about 600 m south of the town of Mejorada. In terms of its structure, the watchtower has a circular plan with a diameter of 1.70 m and a height of 2.80 m in the preserved remains. Its construction is made of ordinary masonry and lime and sand mortar, and it sits on a natural launching pad. Everything seems to indicate that the watchtower of Mejorada, together with the watchtowers of Velada, El Casar, Segurilla, Cardiel, Cerro de San Vicente, etc., formed part of a group of watchtowers whose function was to control the Tagus valley in the Islamic period, and that after the reconquest of the territory they were reused by the Christians, thus surviving until the end of the Middle Ages.
Fountain covered with a semicircular vault, stone parapet and drainage at the base. In front of this fountain there is a basin roughly carved in a granite block of Late Medieval chronology.
Fountain covered with a semicircular vault, stone parapet and drainage at the base. In front of this fountain there is a basin roughly carved in a granite block of Late Medieval chronology.
Perched on a granite promontory, the Calvary consists of a base or pedestal on which stands a column with a Doric capital shaft, on which is placed a small cross, all made of stone.