{"id":108293,"date":"2026-09-07T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/?p=108293"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:00:34","slug":"living-in-jaen-area-most-castles-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/living-in-jaen-area-most-castles-europe\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The area with the most castles in Europe is in Spain and you can buy a house for less than \u20ac90,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Ja\u00e9n is the area with the most castles in all of Europe and, at the same time, <strong>one of the cheapest provinces in Spain<\/strong> to buy a home?<\/p>\n<p>At Fotocasa, we analyze the residential market in Ja\u00e9n to explain what daily life is like and how much it costs to move there. In this guide, we review its best medieval fortresses, its official property prices, and its connectivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much does it cost to move next to a castle in Spain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The monumental heart of Europe: what is it like to live surrounded by castles in Ja\u00e9n?<\/h2>\n<p>Living in Ja\u00e9n, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/buying-property-andalusia-foreigner\/?lang=en\">Andalusia<\/a>, means living alongside <strong>the highest concentration of fortresses in Europe<\/strong>, made up of <strong>237 cataloged military structures.<\/strong> This record includes 97 castles and 126 defensive watchtowers, the result of centuries as the border between the Christian kingdoms and Al-Andalus.<\/p>\n<p>Residing in the municipalities of Ja\u00e9n allows you to see everyday landmarks such as the <strong>Santa Catalina Castle<\/strong> watching over the capital, or the <strong>La Mota Fortress<\/strong> in Alcal\u00e1 la Real. Furthermore, the province is home to the <strong>Burgalimar Fortress<\/strong> in Ba\u00f1os de la Encina, one of the best-preserved 10th-century Umayyad castles in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":108318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[16852,13692,16830,13548,16851,14821,15861,13552,13551,13549,13550,16850,13547],"class_list":["post-108293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-affordable-housing","tag-buy","tag-buy-house-spain","tag-buy-in-spain","tag-castles-in-spain","tag-foreign","tag-fotocasa-life","tag-housing-doubts","tag-housing-experts-in-spain","tag-housing-purchase-market-spain","tag-live-in-spain","tag-living-in-jaen","tag-real-estate-market"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}