ABSTRACT
It is recognized that the strategic control of the historical territory constitutes a functionality inherent to the very origin of the conception of defensive architecture, which is materialized through the selection of high hypsographic prevalence locations endowed with wide viewsheds.
A way to study this topic is the multivariate (MCE) geospatial analysis implemented through Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the context of the materialized research on the late medieval fortifications of the Galician Band, located in the north-western limit of the Sevillian Alfoz, allowed to endorse certain historiographical hypotheses regarding the strategy of territorial implantation of these passive defenses and establishing new theories about the hierarchy of those castral spaces.
In conclusion we can say that the intervisibility analysis between these castles located on the border between the kingdom of Seville and the domains of military orders, confirms that they formed a network of interrelated fortifications structured around the nuclear castles.
