Castle
Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa)
🇪🇸 Spain
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 #6,194 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #360 of the 600 mapped in Spain. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Algeciras, 19 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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Where is Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa)?
Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa) stands in Spain, at 36.00931°, -5.60708°.
How famous is Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa)?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,194 of 7,738 worldwide, and #360 in Spain. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Castillo de Santa Catalina (Tarifa)?
Castle of Tarifa, about 1 km away.
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