Spain · 16th century
The Palace of the Counts of Villardompardo, in the city of Jaén, was built in the 16th century by Fernando Torres y Portugal, 1st Count of Villardompardo and Viceroy of Peru, and is in the Renaissance style. It currently forms part of the Palacio de Villardompardo Cultural Centre.
Machine-translated from “Palacio de Villardompardo (Jaén)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palacio de Villardompardo ranks #8,723 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #593 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1600, it is older than 31% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Jaén, 1 km away. It is one of the 124 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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