Castillo de Guardias Viejas

Today: Castillo de Guardias Viejas, Guardias Viejas (El Ejido)

Place: Roquetas de Mar
Kind: Battery
Built: c. 1769 to 1817
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A coastal battery of Carlos III by the engineer José Crame, begun around 1769: a moat and drawbridge, infantry and cavalry quarters, a chapel and a semicircular platform for four 24-pounder guns. The British destroyed it in the Peninsular War to keep it from the French, and it was rebuilt in 1817. Restored, it houses an exhibition of Napoleonic-era dress and arms.

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