Fortress
Torre de Paraires
🇪🇸 Spain · 13th century
The Torre de Paraires, together with the Torre de Señales or of Portopí, are the only two examples of coastal towers and stand at the mouth of the port of Portopí, one of the ports of Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). Their function was signalling and defensive. The two towers closed the harbour with a chain.
Machine-translated from “Torre de Paraires” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torre de Paraires ranks #7,168 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #443 of the 602 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 63% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 861 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 19 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Balearic Islands. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Torre de Paraires?
Torre de Paraires stands in Spain, at 39.55083°, 2.62389°.
When was Torre de Paraires built?
The atlas dates its founding to c. 1300. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Torre de Paraires?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,168 of 8,134 worldwide, and #443 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 Torre de Paraires?
Fort San Carlos, about 1 km away.
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