Castillo de Luna (Rota)

The Castillo de Luna is a fortress located in the Spanish municipality of Rota. It was built by the house of Arcos, jurisdictional lords of the town for centuries. Today it is the seat of the municipality's town council, which owns it. The castle's name apparently comes from the marriage of Pedro Ponce de León, the ill-fated first-born and heir of the 1st Marquess of Cádiz, to a daughter of Álvaro de Luna, who also gave his name to the castle of Luna of Mairena del Alcor.

It has the generic protection of Spanish castles (decree of 22 April 1949 and second additional provision of law 16/1985).

It is therefore an asset of cultural interest with the category of monument.

Machine-translated from “Castillo de Luna (Rota)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castillo de Luna (Rota) ranks #6,103 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #307 of the 602 mapped in Spain. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cádiz, 11 km away. It is one of the 125 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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