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Castle of Sperlinga

Italy · 16th century

Founded
1597
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Sperlinga
Coordinates
37.76575°, 14.35375°
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Castle of Sperlinga in Italy
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Description

Sperlinga (Sicilian: Spilliṅga) is a village and comune (municipality) in the Province of Enna in the autonomous island region of Sicily in southern Italy, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Enna and 90 kilometres (56 mi) southeast of Palermo. It has 639 inhabitants. Sperlinga borders the municipalities of Gangi and Nicosia.

It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").

Text adapted from “Sperlinga” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Castle of Sperlinga ranks #4,948 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #358 of the 555 mapped in Italy. Founded 1597, it is older than 32% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,536 times in the last 60 days, more than 63% of the atlas. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Sicily. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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