Spain · 13th century
Muralla de la Alcazaba ranks #3,249 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #125 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1238, it is older than 72% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,531 times in the last 60 days, more than 81% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Granada, 1 km away. It is one of the 123 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. It is stop 18 of 30 on the Andalusian frontier castles, Cádiz to Córdoba. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
The Alcazaba (Spanish: Alcazaba; Arabic: القصبة, romanized: al-qaṣabah, lit. 'citadel') is a fortress at the western tip of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Its name comes from the Arabic term al-qaṣabah ('the citadel' or kasbah), which became Alcazaba in Spanish. It is the oldest surviving part of the Alhambra, having been built by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the founder of the Nasrid dynasty, after 1238. It stands on the site of an earlier fortress built by the Zirid kingdom of Granada in the 11th century.
Text adapted from “Alcazaba of the Alhambra” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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