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Castle of San Jorge
🇪🇸 Spain
The Castle of San Jorge was a medieval fortress built on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river in the Spanish city of Seville (Spain). It was also used as headquarters and prison for the Spanish Inquisition.
It was demolished in the 19th century and made into a food market. A museum in the underground ruins focuses on the history of the castle, the Spanish Inquisition and of religious repression. Next to the food market in the Barrio de Triana, the Alley of the Inquisition, which was part of the fortifications, now connects Castilla Street with the Nuestra Señora de la O Walk.
Text adapted from “Castle of San Jorge” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of San Jorge ranks #5,398 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #247 of the 602 mapped in Spain. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Seville, 1 km away. It is one of the 125 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Castle of San Jorge?
Castle of San Jorge stands in Spain, at 37.38561°, -6.00356°.
How famous is Castle of San Jorge?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,398 of 8,134 worldwide, and #247 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 San Jorge?
Seville Royal Shipyard, about 1 km away.
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