Spain · 15th century
The castle of Cox, also called the castle of Santa Bárbara or of Ayala, is located in the Spanish municipality of Cox, province of Alicante. It rises on a small rocky hill called "El Portichuelo", at the foot of the Sierra de Callosa. It was built by Juan Ruiz Dávalos in 1466.
It enjoys the generic protection of the decree of 22 April 1949 and of the second additional provision of Law 16/1985.
It is therefore a bien de interés cultural in the category of monument.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Cox” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cox Castle ranks #8,383 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #499 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded 1466, it is older than 46% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Elche, 22 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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