Castillo del Puerto de Sóller (Torre del Alcaide)

Today: Castell del Port de Sóller (sa Torre), Sóller

Place: Sóller
Kind: Tower
Built: 1543 to 1545
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Private

A cylindrical tower with an artillery battery attached, which it was decided to build after the corsair attack of 1542 to defend the port: work began in 1543 and ended in 1545, the year carved on the lintel. In 1561 it stopped the corsair troops from landing in the port, and it kept a garrison and a governor until 1864. Sold to private owners in 1877, it is now a dwelling and cannot be visited.

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