[3] The first clear document that proves its existence is from 1403, when it became the administrative and judicial center of the Vega family,[4] although there is another from 1338 that seems to refer to it.

[5] It is considered the largest fortification in the eastern part of the Asturias de Santillana.

The last known record of it is the citation of Father Sota in 1861, who, upon seeing the ruins, considered that it had been burned and abandoned, probably during the lawsuits that took place in Cantabria during the Modern Age.

[3] In reality, it must have been a fairly fortified tower, incorrectly called a castle, like other medieval defensive structures in Cantabria.

Today the ruins of the tower and the remains of a fence and the moat are preserved.