Spain · Restored
Castillo de La Calahorra
Castillo de La Calahorra is a Renaissance-era castle in La Calahorra, province of Granada, Spain, built in the early 16th century. It crowns an isolated rocky hill at the edge of the village and is noted for its compact rectangular palace block flanked by four round corner towers. The site was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural in 1922.
First raised
1500
Its prime
1512
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1512
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched atop an isolated rounded granite hill above a village, the castle is a compact rectangular two-storey masonry palace with four large cylindrical corner towers capped by low domes. Smooth reddish-brown stone or brick walls link the towers in continuous curtain walls with regular small rectangular windows; there are no high crenellations visible. The castle presents a squat, symmetrical silhouette against open sky and sits directly on bare rock outcrops.
Its story
The story of Castillo de La Calahorra.
Built between 1509 and 1512 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the Castillo de La Calahorra was one of the first Italian Renaissance castles to be built outside Italy. It crowns an isolated rocky hill at the edge of the village of La Calahorra — a compact rectangular palace block flanked by four round corner towers — and was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural monument in 1922.
The castle has had a second life on screen. It featured in the 1974 film Stardust as the retreat of Jim MacLaine, played by David Essex, and served as a manse in the city of Pentos for the 2022 television series House of the Dragon.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1512.
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