Castle
Castillo de San Marcos
🇪🇸 Spain
Castle of San Marcos (also Castillo de Alfonso X El Sabio) is a medieval castle located in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Spain. The castle was erected as a fortified church by King Alfonso X of Castile. It was built on the site of a mosque of which the wall of the qibla survives.
Close to the castle there is a replica of the map of Juan de la Cosa, along with an explanatory plaque, and a little fountain.
Text adapted from “Castle of San Marcos (El Puerto de Santa María)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castillo de San Marcos ranks #2,713 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #114 of the 180 mapped in Spain. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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