Architectural description
The Alcazaba was built during the XI century, from this time are the perimeter walls that are preserved today. Berbers, Almoravids, Almohads settled there and from 1279 the Nasrid, who left their deepest mark on the building.
The Alcazaba carried out various functions of government and royal residence, military and administrative, from which its structure derives.
The entire enclosure is built with calcarenite stone ashlars arranged with rope and blade, a double wall reinforced with albarranas towers and contain arrows and elbow doors.
Inside the second walled enclosure there are two perfectly delimited areas: the palaces and the military.
In the residential area there are three palaces located on the north-south axis; they contain rectangular courtyards, porticoes, ponds with water, gardens,. . . of the Nasrid signature. Behind it is built the military quarter.
On the eastern edge, the tower of the homage stands out in height, with a quadrangular plan from the same period as the ramparts (XI century), although remodeled by the Nasrid in the XII century and in the Modern Age.
With the passage of time and other vicissitudes, the Alcazaba has suffered great deterioration, which necessitated the reconstruction carried out in the 20th century, which is what we see today.
