Spain · 13th century
The Castle of Sabiote (province of Jaén, Spain) was built in the 13th century, although owing to the defensive pre-eminence which the hill occupies in the whole comarca of La Loma, it must have been a fortified site for all civilisations, from time immemorial.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Sabiote” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Sabiote ranks #8,092 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #458 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. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 54 km away. It is one of the 124 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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