Tower · Níjar

Torre de los Lobos

Today: Faro de Punta de la Polacra, Cerro de los Lobos (Níjar)

Place
Níjar
Kind
Tower
Built
18th century
What remains
Standing

A tapering 18th-century watchtower 14 metres high on the summit of the Cerro de los Lobos, which watched the coast between Mesa Roldán and the Cerro del Fraile. Since 1991 it has carried the lantern of the Punta de la Polacra lighthouse, 281 metres above the sea, the highest lighthouse in Spain.

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