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 #8,149 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #466 of the 607 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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