Castillo de la Villeta

Today: Castillo de Monda, Monda

Place: Marbālla (Marbella)
Kind: Castle
Built: 9th to 15th century
What remains: Ruins
Visiting: Not checked

The fortress of La Villeta, on a limestone crag: its first phases date from the 9th and 10th centuries, the Almohads built its main enclosure in the 12th, with an outer ward, a keep, towers and a cistern, and the Naṣrids reworked it and walled the hamlet on the north slope. A hotel was built on top between 1989 and 1991; the Naṣrid wall on the slope is in poor condition.

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