Tower · Motril

Torre atalaya del Cautor

Today: Torre del Cautor, La Mamola (Polopos)

Place
Motril
Kind
Tower
Built
c. 1501 to 1550
What remains
Standing

One of the oldest towers on the coast, from the first half of the 16th century, on an 80-metre hill at the entrance to La Mamola, marking the eastern edge of the Motril military district. Around 1800 a low battery was planned beside it but never built; it keeps its chamber and part of its machicolation, badly worn at the base and the top.

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