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Villanueva de Cañedo Castle

Spain · 15th century

Founded
1475
Heritage status
bien de interés cultural
Location
Topas
Coordinates
41.15704°, -5.6706°
Links
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Villanueva de Cañedo Castle in Spain
Photo: El Pantera · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Castillo de Villanueva del Cañedo (also known as the Castillo del Buen Amor) is located in the municipal district of Topas, at the place known as Villanueva de Cañedo, a settlement that has now disappeared, in the province of Salamanca (Spain). It is a castle in the Renaissance style which apparently contains remains from the 11th century, but the present construction dates from the 15th century.

Machine-translated from “Castillo del Buen Amor (Salamanca)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Villanueva de Cañedo Castle ranks #8,775 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #483 of the 646 mapped in Spain. Founded 1475, it is older than 45% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 596 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Ávila, 99 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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