Spain · 20th century
The Castle of Santa Catalina in Tarifa is a fortress located on the Cerro de Santa Catalina, near the Port of Tarifa and the city centre (province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain). It was built in 1933 and is currently disused.
It enjoys the generic protection granted to Spanish castles.
It is therefore a Bien de Interés Cultural in the category of Monument.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa) ranks #7,297 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #369 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded 1933 — one of 169 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Algeciras, 19 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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