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Bentomiz Castle
🇪🇸 Spain
Bentomiz Castle is an ancient Moorish fortress built on a hill near the village of Arenas in the province of Málaga. It sits at a height of 711 metres (2,333 ft), and lies to the northeast of Vélez-Málaga.
The castle site is thought to have been occupied by the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, although it is not clear which parts of the ruins date to which period. Roman baths have been found there. The berbers built on the existing structure.
The fortress, then called Munt Mās, was mentioned in the memoirs of Abdallah ibn Buluggin, ruler of the Taifa of Granada in the eleventh century.
Text adapted from “Bentomiz Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bentomiz Castle ranks #296 of 6,412 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 433 mapped in Spain. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Bentomiz Castle?
Bentomiz Castle stands in Spain, at 36.80308°, -4.04416°.
How famous is Bentomiz Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #296 of 6,412 worldwide, and #67 in Spain. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Bentomiz Castle?
Castillo de San Miguel (Almuñécar), about 32 km away.
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