Just before travelling to Sigüenza, which is Malaga in the film, Columbus pays a visit to that icon of Spanish movie castles, the Alcázar of Segovia, where the Inquisition are doing God’s work, torturing scientists and other heretics, led by Marlon Brando as a somewhat portly Torquemada.
All of that should not distract from the elegant beauty of the castle’s façade.