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The castle of the Marqués de los Vélez is located in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, province of Almería. It is currently owned by the Cuevas del Almanzora City Council, and is used as a workshop school, municipal library, the Antonio Manuel Campoy Museum, which contains one of the most important collections of contemporary painting and sculpture in Andalusia, and a conference and exhibition hall.
It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest by the Resolution of June 22, 1993 with the category of Monument. The Castle of the Marqués de los Vélez is a Gothic-style fortress palace ordered to be built by Don Pedro Fajardo in the 16th century, the first Marquis of the Vélez, and later restored in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is located on top of a hill, in the highest part, dominating the town, and is preserved in very good condition.
The castle is organized into three perfectly differentiated buildings: the palace of the marquises, the cobbled courtyard and the Torre del Homenaje and the tercia building, in addition to several rooms among which the Antonio Manuel Campoy Museum deserves special mention.
