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Fine places built around central Spain (7)

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I believe the answer is:

palaces

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'fine places built around central spain' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'places built around central spain' is the wordplay.
'built' indicates anagramming the letters (the same letters can be used to build the answer).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'central' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle of 'spain' is 'a'.
'places' is an anagram of 'palces'.
'palces' enclosing 'a' is 'PALACES'.

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(Other definitions for palaces that I've seen before include "Offical residences of sovereigns" , "kings and queens here?" , "Royal residences" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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