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Castle of Alburquerque

Spain

Heritage status
bien de interés cultural
Location
Alburquerque
Coordinates
39.21732°, -7.00256°
Links
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Castle of Alburquerque in Spain
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Description

Alburquerque Castle is a late medieval fortress that rises on a hill above the town of Alburquerque in the province of Badajoz (Extremadura, Spain). The fortress is also known as Castillo de Luna after one of its main builders, Don Álvaro de Luna, Master of the Order of Santiago and Constable of Castile. The castle stands on top of a crag of the Sierra de San Pedro, dominating the town of Alburquerque and the comarca of Los Baldíos. It is one of the most outstanding medieval fortresses of La Raya, as it lies very close to the border with Portugal, halfway between Valencia de Alcántara to the north and the city of Badajoz to the south. The fortress was declared a National Monument in 1924 and a site of cultural interest on 27 November 1933.

Machine-translated from “Castillo de Alburquerque” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Castle of Alburquerque ranks #8,412 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #443 of the 646 mapped in Spain. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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