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The Peracense castle is one of the most beautiful and unknown Aragonese castles. Surrounded by a unique natural environment, its builders took advantage of the original topography of the land to build a first-rate defensive enclave. It sits 1,365 meters above sea level, on a strongly steep rocky extension of rodeno, which belongs to the southern termination of Sierra Menera, next to the San Ginés hill (Teruel).
It is a fortress made up of three concentric enclosures that sit on outcrops of red sandstone (Buntsandstein micaceous), which were partially chopped and modified to improve the defense. Precisely this sandstone (rodeno), in the form of megaliths, masonry and ashlars laid with lime or gypsum mortar, is the material mainly used in the construction of the walls of this fortress. This is its main attraction: the beautiful reddish color of the Castle that plays harmoniously with the reddish color of the terrain, giving it a unique, natural and spectacular red hue. Wood was used in the castle to a lesser extent and always in beams and quills.
The place was occupied since the end of the Bronze Age, to be occupied again during the time of Muslim domination, in the 10th and 11th centuries. But it is in the Middle Ages when its strategic importance increases due to its bordering position between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and the lordships of Albarracín, Molina de Aragón and Comunidad de Daroca. The castle was expanded and renovated in the mid-14th century.
