The castle, located on the left bank of the road to Granada, was rebuilt by the Arabs on the site of a Phoenician fortress by the river of the same name.<\/p>\n
The Arabs built its current double ring of walls and it was conquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1485. After the war of the Alpujarras, it became a prison-bishopric, which marked the beginning of its decline, culminating at the end of the 16th century. Today it is in ruins.<\/p>\n
This castle is one of the oldest remains of fortifications, with elements suggesting that it may have been built by the Phoenicians and occupied by various civilisations.<\/strong> It was used by the Arabs and later by the Christians as a prison-bishopric. Some historians, such as Diego V\u00e1zquez Otero, speculate that it may be the ancient Odyscia, mentioned in the stories of Ulysses.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2174,"template":"","class_list":["post-2171","que-hacer","type-que-hacer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/que-hacer\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/que-hacer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/que-hacer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}