Spain · 15th century
The Torres de Mens are a castle built in the 15th century by Lope Sánchez de Moscoso, after the Irmandiño revolts, on an earlier fortress which in turn stood on an ancient hillfort. They are located in the hamlet of Mens, in the municipality of Malpica de Bergantiños (Galicia, Spain).
The building has the generic protection of Spanish castles, and since 1994 it has been registered as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument.
In 1993 it received the award given by Europa Nostra to monuments saved from ruin.
Machine-translated from “Torres de Mens” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torres de Mens ranks #7,782 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #421 of the 607 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1450, it is older than 47% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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