Spain · 9th century
The castle of Santa Marta, also called Pancorbo Castle or La Sala, is a castle built in the 9th century on a rocky crest above the municipality of Pancorbo, province of Burgos. Today barely a few visible ruins of its original structure remain, notably a bridge between the crags.
Machine-translated from “Castillo de Pancorbo” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pancorbo Castle ranks #8,274 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #484 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 850, it is older than 94% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 88 atlas entries founded in the 9th century. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Vitoria-Gasteiz, 43 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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