Spain · 13th century
Torre de Paraires ranks #7,986 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #443 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 60% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 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.
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.
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