Tower · Madīnat Ilbīra
Atalaya de la Gallina
Today: Atalaya de la Gallina, Íllora
- Place
- Madīnat Ilbīra (Atarfe)
- Kind
- Tower
- Built
- 14th century
- What remains
- Ruins
- Visiting
- Not checked
A Naṣrid watchtower, possibly of the 14th century, on the last western spurs of the Moclín hills, linking the defences of Moclín and Íllora with the La Mesa tower. A storm wrecked it in 1970, and only part of its solid base survives, about 3 metres high.
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