Burŷ al-Ḥamma برج الحمة

Today: Castillo de Burgalimar, Baños de la Encina

Place: Burŷ al-Ḥamma (Baños de la Encina)
Kind: Castle
Built: c. 967 to 1200
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

An elongated enclosure about a hundred metres long with fourteen square towers and a gate between two towers with horseshoe arches, one of the best preserved Andalusi castles in Spain. Its date is disputed: a plaque of al-Ḥakam II places it in 967 or 968, but excavations early this century put it in the late 11th or early 12th century, because its towers and rammed-earth walls are not Umayyad. The round keep is Castilian, from 1466.

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