Castle · Balaš

Castillo de Bentomiz

Today: Castillo de Bentomiz, Arenas

Place
Balaš (Vélez-Málaga)
Kind
Castle
Built
11th to 15th century
What remains
Ruins
Visiting
Not checked

A double-walled fortress on a 711-metre peak, already named in the Memoirs of ʿAbd Allāh, the 11th-century Zīrid king of Granada, and head of a district of the Axarquía under the Naṣrids. It was handed to the Catholic Monarchs by agreement in 1487. Little remains: square towers, a hexagonal one holding two cisterns and the wall around the plateau.

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