How many castles are there? The atlas finally answers — and 191 new pages come with it

“How many castles are there in Spain?” now has an honest page: there is no single number, and here are three . The atlas maps the 500 most notable; Wikidata, the open database the atlas is built from, holds about 9,800 castle-class sites in Spain; and where a published source has committed to a figure, the page quotes it — Germany’s ~25,000 comes from the German Wikipedia’s own article on castles,…