Melilla la Vieja

Today: Melilla la Vieja, Melilla

Place: Melilla
Kind: Fort
Built: c. 1497 to 1800
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The citadel that Pedro de Estopiñán took for the Crown of Castile on 17 September 1497, when its defences lay in ruins, and which was built up in four enclosures. The first, on the rock, went up between 1497 and 1556; the second, third and fourth were added in the 17th and 18th centuries, with bastions, ditches and underground galleries. Heavily restored, it can be walked today, with its museums and its walls above the sea.

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