Castillo de Sohail, Fuengirola (Málaga)

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The geographic conditions of the hill on which the castle of Sohail is based allowed from old time their continuous poblamiento by Punic, Roman, Muslim and Christian Phoenicians, but the construction which today we can see is an Arab fortress data of the first times of the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, and was raised on previous a Roman strength. Most of which today it can be contemplated is of the time of the caliph Abderraman III. In 1485 an important adaptation of its architecture was conquered by the Christians in the heat of offensive against the nazarí kingdom of Granada, beginning.

Due to their proximity with the sea, the locality of Fuengirola and its castle underwent manifold attacks of the legendary Barbarroja pirate, reason why king Carlos I commanded to construct the pit. She was also victim of the contraband that experienced the zone when the English occupied the zone of the Rock of Gibraltar, reason why count Montemar carried out a series of reforms.

In the year the 1810 troops of Napoleón occupied the castle with a strong trimming, until in 1812 she was occupied again by Spanish troops.

With the confiscation of Mendizabal it happened to hands deprived by means of an auction, and in centuries XIX and XX she lodged the dependencies of the Civil Guard.