Agüero’s Family Tower: A Historic Residence in Cantabria
Site at a Glance
- Popularity
- Very Low
- Country
- Spain
- Primary era
- Early Modern
- Eras represented
- Early Modern
- Civilizations
- Crown of Castile, Spanish
- Site type
- Domestic
- Remains
- Elite Residence
History
Agüero’s Family Tower is a historic residence in San Vicente de Toranzo, Cantabria, Spain, probably built in the seventeenth century for the Agüero family. The family belonged to a Cantabrian lineage that included Pedro González de Agüero, a medieval nobleman knighted by Alfonso XI, king of Castile and León, in 1330. The tower received Spain’s Asset of Cultural Interest designation, a formal heritage-protection status, in 1992, and is privately owned.
Remains
The tower has a square plan and three storeys. Its south facade is made of regularly cut stone blocks, while the other facades use less precisely worked stone. A well-preserved Agüero family coat of arms occupies the second storey. The main entrance has a semicircular arch, and the windows are rectangular. A decorative molding and a clay-tile roof that slopes on all four sides crown the building.
A later building of less precisely worked stone is attached to the tower and rises to the level of its second storey.
