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Home > Travel Spain > Spain Attractions > Gibralfaro Castle: A Magnificent Fourteenth Century Fortress
Gibralfaro Castle: A Magnificent Fourteenth Century Fortress
The magnificent fourteenth century Gibralfaro fortress that became the central protective position of the town through the Moorish living still conserves much of its first structure. Nowadays, it provides visitors an approach interested in the Arab way of life in Andalusia in addition to a gorgeous panoramic sight of the bay.The forename Gibralfaro originated from the Greek word faruh, or lighthouse and the Arab word yabal or mountain; that is why several historians consider that a Phoenician pharo was constructing on Mount Gibralfaro before the building of the Moorish fortress. The structure that can be observed these days was constructed during the time in power of King Yusuf I to defend the royal fortresses of Alcazaba. The fortified fortress demonstrates all the armed improvements brought in Al-Andalus by the Arabs. Many elements of the fortress still show outlines of the old Moorish fountains, commune, furnaces and walls that continue unbroken to this date. Throughout the Reconquista, guided by Fernando and Isabel, Los Reyes Catolicos, the Arab mosque was transformed hooked on a Christian chapel; that is why this fraction of the structure demonstrates a synthesis of European and Arabic styles identified as mudéjar that represent a exceptional characteristic of the Andalusian structure design scenery.
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