In 1163 Alfonso VIII granted Castro-Urdiales the repopulation jurisdiction to be donated to the Las Huelgas monastery between 1187 and 1193 and betwee

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In 1163 Alfonso VIII granted Castro-Urdiales the repopulation jurisdiction to be donated to the Las Huelgas monastery between 1187 and 1193 and between 1214 and 1219, date from which it will always be a town of realengo, belonging to the Four Villas Corregimiento , then to the Bastille of Laredo and from 1830 to the province of Santander. The fortification had to rise around 1200, while the walled enclosure of the town and the neighboring church of San Pedro. It actively participated in the war of Independence against the French.

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Location: Cantabria, Spain
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