Palace & château
Palacio de Villardompardo
🇪🇸 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 #7,350 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #573 of the 600 mapped in Spain. Founded 1600, it is older than 32% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 718 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 125 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Palacio de Villardompardo?
Palacio de Villardompardo stands in Spain, at 37.77111°, -3.79401°.
When was Palacio de Villardompardo built?
The atlas dates its founding to 1600. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Palacio de Villardompardo?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,350 of 7,738 worldwide, and #573 in Spain. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Palacio de Villardompardo?
Castle of Santa Catalina (Jaén), about 1 km away.
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