Castle
Castle of Sandiás
🇪🇸 Spain
The Castle of Sandiás, also known as the Torre de Sandiás or Torre do Castro, is a medieval fortification situated on an isolated knoll in the hamlet of O Castro, in the municipality of Sandiás, province of Ourense, Galicia (Spain). Remains of its keep survive, whose walls are of great thickness, and it is also a prominent landmark with wide views over the plain of A Limia and the former Antela lagoon.
It enjoys the generic protection granted to Spanish castles.
It is therefore a Bien de Interés Cultural in the category of Monument.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Sandianes” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Sandiás ranks #7,164 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #515 of the 600 mapped in Spain. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Braga, 85 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Castle of Sandiás?
Castle of Sandiás stands in Spain, at 42.12299°, -7.74376°.
How famous is Castle of Sandiás?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,164 of 7,738 worldwide, and #515 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 Sandiás?
Castle of Maceda, about 18 km away.
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