Spain · 13th century
The castle of Arjonilla, also known as the castle of the Troubadour Macías, is a medieval fortification located in Arjonilla, province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), at about 345 m above sea level. Its most outstanding and oldest element, from the 13th century and built over an earlier 8th-century Arab fortress, is the keep. The rest of the enclosure appears to date from the 15th century and to be the work of the Order of Calatrava.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Arjonilla” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castillo de Arjonilla ranks #8,907 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #597 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 36 km away. It is one of the 124 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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