Fortress · Mālaqa

Alcázar de Gibralfaro

Today: Castillo de Gibralfaro, Málaga

Place
Mālaqa (Málaga)
Kind
Fortress
Built
c. 1340
What remains
Standing
Visiting
Open to visit

The fortress on the summit of the hill above Málaga, which the Nasrid sultan Yusuf I enlarged into a palace-fortress in 1340. A walled corridor runs down from it to the Alcazaba on the slope. Its walls can be walked today.

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