Castle of Benabarre

The castle of Benabarre, also known as the castle of the Counts of Ribagorza, is a medieval castle located in the town of Benabarre, in the province of Huesca, in Aragon.

It is a fortification set along an elongated hill of great height above the town, from which there was visual communication with nearby localities such as Purroy or Pilzán.

The castle sits on a limestone promontory that it uses as its foundations. This gave a great defensive advantage, since the walls could thus not be mined (a usual technique in the siege of fortresses, consisting of building a tunnel beneath the wall and then collapsing it to open a breach through which to assault). It is also surrounded by a wall. The entrance is by way of stairs protected by a wall. It was declared a bien de interés cultural in 2006.

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

Castle of Benabarre ranks #6,915 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #464 of the 600 mapped in Spain. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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