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Alcazaba

Diputación de Málaga
Vista parcial recinto amurallado, Ronda

Alcazaba

Monuments and Art > The Castle and the Wall

Partly destroyed during the siege of Ronda in 1845 and subsequently by the French troops in the War of Independence (1812), the Alcazaba was damaged at early twentieth century as a result of the widening of the Street of the Images and the construction of the Castle "School" (as the Alcazaba was subsequently the Castle of El Laurel).

What remains today still contains much of the original Arabic structure, although it has suffered damages as a result of the reforms of the walls and later works. At first glance appears to be a fortified building of the fourteenth century, but in all likelihood, its origins date back to the eleventh century.

His position reflects its strategic importance to the city of Ronda, as it takes advantage of a rocky cliff at the south, fitted with at least two lines of walls, of which the outside can be seen. Inside, the castle was protected by a wall of fortified towers, the keep tower found on the eastern front of the city.

The entrance to the city and the two neighborhoods or suburbs could be controlled from the Citadel, forming, together with the missing Gate of Images, a nearly impregnable defensive, vulnerable only by siege.

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