Spain · 13th century
The Castle of Vimianzo, also known as the Torres de Martelo, stands at the entrance to the town of Vimianzo, in the municipality of the same name (province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain). It currently houses a permanent exhibition of folk crafts. It is a Bien de Interés Cultural. It is in a very good state of preservation, with walls from the 13th century, although most of the preserved structure dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Vimianzo” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Vimianzo ranks #6,182 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #274 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. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 992 times in the last 60 days, more than 50% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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