Castillo de Gibralfaro, Málaga

Gibralfaro Castle Castle in Malaga, erected by Jusuf I, the Muslim ruler of Grenada in the first half of the fourteenth century.

The castle was erected upstairs with a height of 131 m a.s.l. For a defense located at the foot of the older fortress, with which it is connected by a passage, protected by one line of walls.

The name of the mountain comes from Arab. Jabal - Góra and Greek. Pharos - lighthouse, pointing to the use of the mountain as a former navigation sign.

Before building the castle, there were Phoenician buildings.

After Malaga gained by the Spaniards in 1487, the castle was the residence of Ferdinand II Catholic and his wife Izabela and Catholic. The castle played a military role until 1925.

The castle was built taking into account new solutions at the time. The walls running with a zigzag allowed to give up building flanking towers, and the main gate, placed in the lowest part, was built in such a way that the attacker, after pushing one door, had to change the direction and for example and Get a second door, while the defenders could offend them from the top of the gate without the roof.

Currently, the defensive walls remained by design are available for sightseeing. At the top of the wall there is a ramp from which the city is viewed, and with good visibility you can see Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains. Other buildings remained wells and tanks, as well as a much newer building of the gunpowder, in which an exhibition was arranged, presenting weapons, uniforms and equipment of troops from the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century.