Spain · 3rd century BC
City walls of Córdoba ranks #3,797 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #152 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded 206 BC, it is older than 99% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 11 atlas entries founded in the 3rd century BC. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 87 km away. It is one of the 123 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. It is stop 25 of 30 on the Andalusian frontier castles, Cádiz to Córdoba. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
The Roman Walls of Córdoba are the ancient Roman defensive walls of the Roman colonia of Corduba –present-day Córdoba, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica. Stretching 2,650 metres (8,690 ft), they were built after the Romans captured the city in 206 BC to defend the ancient Roman town as part of the Roman Republic. The sections of wall still standing and the rest of its vestiges, now form part of the historic center of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
Text adapted from “Roman walls of Córdoba” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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