Town, 35 km from Guadalajara, on the Alcarria plateau, site of a dismantled castle in the Cid’s time. Alfonso refurbished the castle with the permission of the King of Toledo.
The town goes steeply down from the plateau to the Tajuna depression in a series of quaint streets Latitude: 40.76135. Longitude: -2.86448.
And as he was thus sporting he came to a place which is now called Brihuega, and it pleased him well, for it was a fair place to dwell in, and abounded with game, and there was a dismantled castle there, and he thought that he would ask the King for this place.