The castle has been recently restored and this allows us to appreciate the appearance of this volume palate under-medieval building. Your income is located on the facade of the east, ancient archway apainelado in masonry, protected by two rectangular blocks projecting, performed, and the whole factory of mud on basement of masonry.
Once inside the castle, we find a room divided in two parts: the palace and city walls. The latter is of polygonal to rectangular blocks outgoing and closes, NE, with the palace. To the left of the entrance is the chapel, three bays, and to the right stands the palace itself. This is a prismatic, rectangular and two floors and is accessed by a central span arch and balcony amatacanado. Inside space is distributed in two buildings or rooms per floor, connected by a spiral staircase, built inside the tower on the eastern flank of the palace.
The spacious and bright rooms are connected by means of doors and windows or mixtilinear ogee arches, modeled in plaster. The main room on the first floor, must wear a refined base of Valencian tiles, perfectly suited to the times.
The foundation of this so-called castle, now stripped of turrets and battlements, should be traced back to Christian times and in particular to the Middle Ages, because until that time, Cox was a farmhouse Islamic with the Christian conquest of the area in the second half of the thirteenth century, was placed under the dominion of Ra'ís Crevillente Muslim, to extinction early fourteenth century. He was subsequently passed from hand to hand until, in 1450, D. Juan Ruiz Dávalos bought it Togores family, making a few years later, in 1466, a permit from King John II to implement reforms in the castle, which we reaffirmed in the idea may be facing one of the few examples in Valencian land of palaces erected in the second half of XV century.
(as Rafael Azaur and Francisco J. Navarro CASTLES OF ALICANTE)
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