Ruin
Castle of Gibralfaro
🇪🇸 Spain
The Castle of Gibralfaro is the ruin of a castle complex on the castle hill (Jbel-Faro = "rock of the lighthouse") within the urban area of the Andalusian city of Málaga. Together with the Alcazaba it ranks among the most important historical sights of the Spanish provincial capital on the Costa del Sol.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Gibralfaro” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Gibralfaro ranks #1,307 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #47 of the 603 mapped in Spain. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 4,833 times in the last 60 days, more than 84% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Málaga, 1 km away. It is one of the 126 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. It is stop 12 of 30 on the Andalusian frontier castles, Cádiz to Córdoba. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Castle of Gibralfaro?
Castle of Gibralfaro stands in Spain, at 36.72322°, -4.41164°.
How famous is Castle of Gibralfaro?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #1,307 of 8,133 worldwide, and #47 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 Castle of Gibralfaro?
Alcazaba of Málaga, about 1 km away.
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