Spain · 16th century
The Palace of Monterrey is a building in the Spanish city of Salamanca, one of the finest examples of the Plateresque style. Built by the 3rd Count of Monterrey, it is now the property of the House of Alba, which holds that county. It was a much admired and imitated building in the 19th century, giving rise to the so-called Monterrey or neo-Plateresque style, a historicism that took up the aesthetics of the Plateresque.
It was declared a National Historic Monument, equivalent to the present term BIC in the category of Monument, on 6 May 1929. Since May 2018 the building has been open to tourist visits.
Machine-translated from “Palacio de Monterrey” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monterrey Palace ranks #2,998 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #111 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 886 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,404 times in the last 60 days, more than 60% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ávila, 89 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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