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Route of D. Quixote.

The castle of Sigüenza was constructed in the first quarter of century XII on another previous Muslim. It underwent reforms in centuries XIV, XV, XVI and XVIII, and partially was destroyed in century XIX, 1811 and during the carlistas wars, and in century XX, during the civil war (1936 and 1939). Sigüenza was seat of an important celtíbera city, Segontia that was located in high hills of the right margin of the Henares river. In Roman times, there was important station of step and nourished place of inhabitants here, who surely elevated their first tower or sentry post on the valley in which it is today castle-strength. The Visigoths inhabited the city, and the Arabs, although in smaller number, also they did it, almost reduced to the trimming of its the most elevated strong and watched redoubt in of the border. It reconquers it of Sigüenza took place year 1123, being its first bishop, aquitano Don Bernardo de Agen, that to the control of a powerful army conquered the city to the Arabs who occupied it.