Spain · 14th century
The Castell de Santueri is the ruin of a rock castle on the 408 m high table mountain Puig de Santueri in the eastern mountains, the Serres de Llevant, in the municipality of Felanitx on Majorca, Spain. It lies about seven kilometres south-east of Felanitx.
In the 14th century a new fortress was built by the Spanish crown on the remains of an earlier hill castle, serving among other things as protection against raids by pirates. From the 18th century the fortress fell into decay. Of the castle, built of white limestone, numerous extensive parts such as enclosing walls and towers survive, showing many structural details such as arrow slits, merlons of the parapet and projecting corbels of the (former) machicolations.
Machine-translated from “Castell de Santueri” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castell de Santueri ranks #4,249 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #176 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 54% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 19 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Balearic Islands. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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