Walls · Ceuta

Murallas Reales

Today: Murallas Reales de Ceuta, Ceuta

Place: Ceuta
Kind: Walls
Built: c. 1541 to 1720
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The line of fortifications that closes the isthmus between the Almina peninsula and the mainland. The Portuguese raised the present wall between 1541 and 1549, with the bastions of la Bandera and la Coraza Alta, and the Spanish rebuilt it in 1674 and 1705 and remade its outworks after the siege of 1720. The wall survives with its sea-filled ditch and the first line of outworks; parts can be visited, and the Revellín de San Ignacio houses one site of the city museum.

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