Spain
Castillo La Iruela is a fortress of Andalusi origin located in La Iruela, in the Alto Guadalquivir district, province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in Spain. It stands on the summit of a crag called El Picacho, in the heart of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas natural park.
It is under the generic protection of the Decree of 22 April 1949 and of Law 16/1985 on Spanish Historical Heritage.
It is therefore an asset of cultural interest with the category of monument.
La Iruela was declared a historic-artistic ensemble in 1985.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de la Iruela” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castillo La Iruela ranks #7,988 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #441 of the 607 mapped in Spain. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 72 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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