Chile · 18th century
Torreón Picarte ranks #8,757 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #12 of the 16 mapped in Chile. Founded 1774, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Chile compares in the castle statistics.
The Torreón Picarte, or Torreón del Barro, is a historic monument located in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile. It stands on Ramón Picarte street No. 1244, one of the old accesses to the city — the road to Los Llanos — and was designed together with the Torreón Los Canelos in 1768 by the engineer Juan Garland; it was built under the government of Joaquín de Espinoza y Dávalos in 1774.
It has belonged to the group of national monuments of Chile since 1926 by virtue of Supreme Decree 744 of 24 March of that year; it is in the category "Historic Monuments".
Machine-translated from “Torreón Picarte” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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