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Today only the north wall is visible, between the King's
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In 1903, the city council, which was at the time the owner of the castle, decided to dismantle it. The stone from the castle was used for the construction of the bullring (today disappeared), the ruins of the castle were covered with earth and used as the foundations for the construction of a water
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defensive system that consisted of a series of entrance halls before the front door. It also had a pit on the west side that looks towards the rest of the hill of the Picota.
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The castle was constructed of ashlar masonry stone, or at least the external walls, while the rest was completed with rubble.
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