Viso del Marqués is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
located in the
province of Ciudad Real
The province of Ciudad Real () is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete, Jaén, Córdoba, Badajoz, and Toledo. It is partly located ...
,
Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2014
census
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,
[ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)] The municipality has a population of 2,578 inhabitants.
It is the site of the
Palace of the Marquis of Santa Cruz, built in the late sixteenth century by
Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz. Álvaro de Bazan was a senior
admiral
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in the
Spanish Navy
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, and created the concept of the
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, ) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval ...
but died before it was deployed to attack England. The Marquis's palace has been repurposed as the modern headquarters of the National Archive of the Spanish Navy.
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Municipalities in the Province of Ciudad Real
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