Castillo de la Duquesa

Today: Castillo de la Duquesa, Manilva

Place: Estepona
Kind: Fort
Built: 1767
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A bastioned fort of brick, rubble and ashlar around a courtyard, with two rectangular towers to the north, two semicircular ones to the south and a battery facing the sea. It was built in 1767, when Carlos III fortified the coast of the Kingdom of Granada, and today it houses the Manilva municipal archaeology museum, over a Roman site.

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