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 #1,274 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #47 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 4,833 times in the last 60 days, more than 86% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Málaga, 1 km away. It is one of the 123 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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