Tower · Níjar
Torre de los Lobos
Today: Faro de Punta de la Polacra, Cerro de los Lobos (Níjar)
- Place
- Níjar
- Kind
- Tower
- Built
- 18th century
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
A tapering 18th-century watchtower 14 metres high on the summit of the Cerro de los Lobos, which watched the coast between Mesa Roldán and the Cerro del Fraile. Since 1991 it has carried the lantern of the Punta de la Polacra lighthouse, 281 metres above the sea, the highest lighthouse in Spain.
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