Jaén had nine castles on the map. Spanish readers noticed — and 645 landmarks across 57 countries followed

“Jaén, la mayor concentración de castillos de Europa, solo salgan nueve, vaya timo.” Marcos, commenting on 20minutos’ article about the atlas , counted right: the province had nine. The reason was not a missing castle but a rule — the atlas admitted landmarks in national fame order, and in that race Jaén’s castles lost every slot to Catalonia’s. The whole admissible tier of the province was read,…