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Data of the Town

The Tower De Esteban Hambran

Town

The Tower of Esteban Hambran

Municipality

The Tower of Esteban Hambran / Region: Torrijos or Castles of the Tagus

Province

Toledo

Community

Castile The Spot

Habt. / Ine 2004

1506

 

Town hall

Direction

Square of the Constitution, 1

ZIP code

45920

Phone

925795101

Fax

925795205

Office Tourism

To contact with telf. quoted

Official web

The Tower De Esteban Hambran

Web of Interest

 

E-mail municipality

latorre@dip utoledo.es

The place name of "The Tower of Esteban Amerán" or "Hambrán" can have the following origin: it is probable that in XIIIth century existed, in the place where tower constructed by the Muslims raises the town, one , used to communicate to him with Alamín castle, by means of fires. Likewise, one believes that Esteban Ambrán Mozarabic personage of the XIIIth century, was the owner of a tower that takes his name. It is believed that nothing this question has to do in Esteban Illán, deputy mayor of Toledo.

The whole bordering Alamín territory depended on the fortitude and town this way called in Moslem epoch. Missing person with reconquest of the territory the ancient population, place repopulates his this one concerning "the tower", which in the XIIIth century was already called "Esteban Hambrán". The castle, deserted place and forest of Alamín belong in the XVth century to the Mitre toledana, his neighbors bring in in collision with the towns of his outskirts, between them with Tower, which at the beginning of this century is under Pedro's dominion López Ayala, to whom it was bought in 1436, Álvaro de Luna. There spends it town to be a real domain, when Juan II confiscates his goods, entering later the family of Mendoza. In 1477 he contributes to support of the Holy Brotherhood of Toledo. The town secretary of the King was even the year 1568 under the dominion of the dukes of the Infantado, that being property of Pedro González of Mendoza one sold it to Diego Vargas, . (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link)

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