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Castillo de Huelma

Spain

Heritage status
bien de interés cultural
Location
Huelma
Coordinates
37.65162°, -3.46168°
Links
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Castillo de Huelma in Spain
Photo: PMRMaeyaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Castillo de Huelma stands on the outskirts of the town centre of Huelma, province of Jaén (Spain). It is today a castle of Renaissance style built, probably, by the lord of the town, the Duke of Alburquerque, in the first half of the 16th century. It has a quadrangular plan (13.95 x 11.40 metres) and is provided with four cylindrical towers, one at each corner, joined to one another by stretches of wall, and a doorway opened in a round arch at ground level. The two large towers on the south side are provided with artillery embrasures distributed over at least two levels. At the west corner it rests directly on a great crag, cut sheer, which is in itself a powerful defence.

Machine-translated from “Castillo de Huelma” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Castillo de Huelma ranks #6,074 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #260 of the 646 mapped in Spain. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,824 times in the last 60 days, more than 71% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 32 km away. It is one of the 131 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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