Fortín de Velilla

Today: Torreón de Taramay, Almuñécar

Place: Almuñécar
Kind: Tower
Built: c. 1764 to 1800
What remains: Standing

An 18th-century horseshoe tower on the Punta de Jesús, at the end of the Almuñécar seafront, of a pattern repeated along the coast from 1764, with a guardroom, a fireplace and gunports to cover the beach. It is private property, converted into a summer house, and cannot be visited.

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