Torreón de Sierra Elvira

Today: Torreón de Sierra Elvira, Albolote

Place: Madīnat Ilbīra (Atarfe)
Kind: Tower
Built: 13th to 15th century
What remains: Standing

A cylindrical Naṣrid watchtower on the Sierra Elvira, solid in its lower two thirds, with a round-arched door-window to the west and another window facing the Alhambra. It was the tower that linked the whole Vega with Granada itself, a reference point for many of the kingdom's fortifications.

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