Castillo de Monóvar

Monuments

It rises on one of the two hills that dominate the town of the same name, northeast of the town, in the Middle Vinalopó (Alicante, Spain). The Castle of Monóvar was built in the Almohad period, between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th, and was used until the beginning of the 17th century. It had a privileged situation, from which dominated the network of fortifications that marked the Vinalopó River, (the castles and the Elda turret, and Petrel Castle), as well as the communication route of the Pinoso-Jumilla corridor, natural exit towards Murcia and Andalusia. It was a castle with an irregular plan, similar to a triangle. In the center is the Homage Tower, where there was also a cistern. You can also see remains of a smaller tower on the north face, and some canvases of the wall. In the archaeological excavations that have been made on the hill where the castle was erected, archaeological remains from the Bronze Age, fragments of Almohad pottery from the 12th and 13th centuries, a piece of jewelery from the 15th or 16th centuries and fragments of jugs, plates and bowls from the fourteenth century onwards. At present it is in ruins and only retains part of a tower, recently restored.