Alcazaba de la Alhambra

Today: Alcazaba de la Alhambra, Granada

Place: Granada
Kind: Fort
Built: 1492 to 1589
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The Spanish reworked the Nasrid alcazaba to withstand gunpowder artillery: the work began in 1492 and was mostly finished around 1589. It left the rounded Torre del Cubo, built around a Nasrid tower, the bastion that strengthens the Torre de la Pólvora, and the brick rampart with curved battlements over the filled-in ditch, probably of 1550 to 1555, which gave the fortress its present form.

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