Montefrío
Montefrio is a municipality in the province of Granada. The ruins of a Moorish castle sit near the highest point. Being built midway between the Sierra de Priego and Sierra Parapanda, and commanding the open valley between these ranges, it became one of the chief frontier fortresses of the Moors in the 15th century.
- Type: Village with 3,940 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “Montefrio”
- Postal code: 18270
- Neighbors: Alcalá la Real
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de la Encarnación and Castillo de Montefrío.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Venta de Agramaderos.
Venta de Agramaderos
Hamlet
Venta de Agramaderos is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km north of Montefrío.
Montefrío
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Montefrío, Granada, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.32102° or 37° 19′ 16″ north
Longitude
-4.01112° or 4° 0′ 40″ west
Population
3,940
Elevation
796 metres (2,612 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES MNF
Open location code
8C9Q8XCQ+CH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Montefrío” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مونتيفريو”
- Aragonese: “Montefrío”
- Armenian: “Մոնտեֆրիո”
- Asturian: “Montefrío”
- Basque: “Montefrio”
- Basque: “Montefrío”
- Breton: “Montefrío”
- Catalan: “Montefrío”
- Cebuano: “Montefrío (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Montefrío”
- Chechen: “Монтефрио”
- Chinese: “Montefrío”
- Chinese: “蒙特夫里奥”
- Chinese: “蒙特夫里奧”
- Chinese: “蒙特弗里奥”
- Czech: “Montefrío”
- Danish: “Montefrío”
- Dimli (individual language): “Montefrío”
- Dutch: “Montefrio”
- Dutch: “Montefrío”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مونتيفريو”
- Esperanto: “Montefrio”
- Esperanto: “Montefrío”
- Finnish: “Montefrío”
- French: “Montefrio”
- French: “Montefrío”
- Galician: “Montefrío”
- Georgian: “მონტეფრიო”
- German: “Montefrío”
- Haitian: “Montefrío”
- Hungarian: “Montefrío”
- Interlingua: “Montefrío”
- Irish: “Montefrío”
- Italian: “Montefrío”
- Japanese: “モンテフリオ”
- Kazakh: “Montefrïo”
- Kazakh: “Монтефрио”
- Kazakh: “مونتەفرىيو”
- Ladin: “Montefrío”
- Lithuanian: “Montefrio”
- Lombard: “Montefrío”
- Luxembourgish: “Montefrío”
- Malay: “Montefrío”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Montefrío”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Montefrío”
- Norwegian: “Montefrío”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Montefrío”
- Polish: “Montefrío”
- Portuguese: “Montefrío”
- Russian: “Монтефрио”
- Slovak: “Montefrío”
- Spanish: “Montefrio”
- Spanish: “Montefrío”
- Swedish: “Montefrío”
- Tatar: “Монтефрио”
- Turkish: “Montefrío”
- Ukrainian: “Монтефріо”
- Urdu: “مونتیفریو”
- Uzbek: “Montefrio”
- Uzbek: “Montefrío”
- Uzbek: “Монтефрíо”
- Uzbek: “Монтефрио”
- Venetian: “Montefrío”
- Vietnamese: “Montefrío”
- Waray (Philippines): “Montefrío”
- “Montefrío”
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Notable Places Nearby
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