Castle
Castle of Orihuela
🇪🇸 Spain
The castle of Orihuela is a medieval fortress of the town of Orihuela, in the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura in the province of Alicante (Valencian Community, Spain). It is located on top of Monte de San Miguel, at an altitude of 240 metres, and can be reached by car only as far as the diocesan seminary of Orihuela, halfway up the slope of that hill.
It is a bien de interés cultural in the category of monument.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Orihuela” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Orihuela ranks #6,810 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #444 of the 600 mapped in Spain. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Murcia, 20 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Castle of Orihuela?
Castle of Orihuela stands in Spain, at 38.09083°, -0.94583°.
How famous is Castle of Orihuela?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,810 of 7,738 worldwide, and #444 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 Orihuela?
Cox Castle, about 8 km away.
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