Spain
Torrecid ranks #8,395 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #510 of the 606 mapped in Spain. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
Torrecid was a Christian motte-and-bailey castle where El Cid camped for fifteen weeks around the year 1081 according to legend. The site remained buried for almost a thousand years until recent archaeological excavations found it where Cantar de Mio Cid describes it. The site, located in the valley of the Jalón river, is in the current municipality of Ateca (Zaragoza), Spain. To date the regional Government of Aragon has not cataloged it so its protection is the generic indicated in the Decree of 22 April 1949 and Law 16/1985 of protection of the Spanish Historical Heritage.
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