Tower · Almuñécar
Fortín de Velilla
Today: Torreón de Taramay, Almuñécar
- Place
- Almuñécar
- Kind
- Tower
- Built
- c. 1764 to 1800
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Private
An 18th-century horseshoe tower on the Punta de Jesús, at the end of the Almuñécar seafront, of a pattern repeated along the coast from 1764, with a guardroom, a fireplace and gunports to cover the beach. It is private property, converted into a summer house, and cannot be visited.
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