Spain · 13th century
The Castle of Medellín is a 13th-century fortress located on a high hill on the left bank of the Guadiana river, next to the town of Medellín in the Spanish municipality of the same name, situated some 103 km from Badajoz, capital of the province of the same name, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, 44 km from Mérida and 89 km from Cáceres. It stands on a hill beside the Guadiana and the town and has an irregular, roughly elliptical plan. It was declared a historic-artistic monument, the predecessor of the designation of Bien de Interés Cultural, on 3 June 1931.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Medellín” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Medellín ranks #6,967 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #345 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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