Gibralfaro Castle
Guide
Photo: Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$6ViewpointAllow 1–1.5 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Castle walls on the top of the hill that you can walk along, with the best views in the city: the bullring, the port, the cathedral and the coast.
A brief history
It was built in the 1300s by a sultan of Granada to protect the Alcazaba; its name means 'mountain of the lighthouse', after a lighthouse that once stood here. It held out for months against Ferdinand and Isabella in 1487.
Tips
- Best time
- Late afternoon; the climb from the Alcazaba is steep, or take a city bus up (check)
- Cost
- About €3.50 (check)
- Allow
- 1–1.5 h
- Free days
- Usually free on Sunday afternoons from 2pm (check)
- Hours
- Usually daily 9:00–20:00 from April to October, 9:00–18:00 the rest of the year (check)
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