Tower · Baṭalyaws
Torre albarrana de Baṭalyaws
Today: Torre de Espantaperros, Badajoz
- Place
- Baṭalyaws (Badajoz)
- Kind
- Tower
- Built
- c. 1169 to 1170
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
An octagonal Almohad albarrana tower beside the alcazaba, built around 1169 or 1170 while Abu Yaqub Yusuf was enlarging the fortress, half a century before the Torre del Oro. It rises twenty metres to its terrace, and the Mudéjar lantern on top was added in the 16th century.
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