Torre del Oro

Today: Torre del Oro, Sevilla

Place: Sevilla
Kind: Tower
Built: 1760
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The upper body of the tower is a lantern with bull's-eye windows and a dome of gilded tiles, built in 1760, between 14 June and 27 July, as part of the restoration that followed the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. In 1758 the king had charged Sebastián Van der Borcht with overseeing the tower. Since 1944 it has housed a maritime museum, run by the Navy.

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