Tower House

Located in the Plaza Mayor and in front of the Church of San Miguel is the oldest recognized civil building in the town of Ayllón. In all the records found it is known as La Casa de la Torre and its location suggests at first that it belonged to someone from Ayllon with a good life, although thanks to the census deeds made by the public notaries we know that it is one of the residences of the town that has changed hands the most. The first data found indicate that the building belonged in the mid-sixteenth century to the chaplaincy of Simon de Angulo. Over the years it would change hands between nobles and ecclesiastical positions, reaching the bachelor Juan de la Torre in 1702, who would reform it and attach it to the adjoining building. In the middle of the 19th century, the Ecclesiastical Chapter that ran the house was dissolved, leaving the building empty for years, until the City Council decided to give it a second life. It became a barracks house for the Civil Guard until they moved to the current barracks and left the house empty again. At the end of the last century, the house was acquired by a bank, using the first floor for branch offices and a recreation center for the elderly in the upper part. As a curiosity, and like the Contreras Palace, this building has a replica in "El Poble Espanyol" in Barcelona.