Moorish Castle

The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant features being the Tower of Homage and the Gate House.
Wikipedia
Photo: James Cridland, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Castle
  • Description: medieval fortification in Gibraltar
  • Also known as: “Tower of Homage”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Queen Charlotte’s Battery and World War II Tunnels.

Fort
Photo: Gibmetal77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Queen Charlotte's Battery is a 1727 artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of .

The tunnels of Gibraltar were constructed over the course of nearly 200 years, principally by the British Army. Within a land area of only 2.6 square miles, has around 34 miles of tunnels, nearly twice the length of its entire road network. is situated 120 metres northeast of Moorish Castle.

Fort
Jones' Battery is one of the best preserved of the "retired" artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of . It was named after Sir John Thomas Jones who once controlled the fortifications here.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ocean Village and East Side.

Neighborhood
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is a mixed-use marina, residential, business, and leisure development in , in the North end of the Iberian peninsula. The project features 316 residential apartments, over 250 marina berths and extensive business accommodation.

Hamlet
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Catalan Bay is a bay and fishing in , on the eastern side of away from Westside.

Locality
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is an area of reclaimed land in the British Overseas Territory of . It is located at the centre of the western end of Gibraltar Harbour as one of its industrial zones.

Moorish Castle

Latitude
36.14386° or 36° 8′ 38″ north
Longitude
-5.35015° or 5° 21′ 1″ west
Elevation
402 metres (1,319 feet)
Open location code
8C8P4JVX+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13970855661
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Geo­Names ID
6693878
Wiki­data ID
Q249047
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Moorish Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القلعة الحرة”
  • Basque: “Gaztelu moriskoa”
  • Basque: “Mairuen Gaztelua”
  • Bengali: “মুরিশ দুর্গ”
  • Cebuano: “Moorish Castle”
  • Chinese: “摩爾人城堡”
  • Dutch: “Moorish Castle”
  • Esperanto: “Maŭra Kastelo”
  • Finnish: “Moorish Castle”
  • French: “château maure”
  • French: “Château maure”
  • Hebrew: “הטירה המורית”
  • Hindi: “मूरिश किला”
  • Hungarian: “Mór vár”
  • Indonesian: “Moorish Castle”
  • Italian: “Castello moresco”
  • Japanese: “ムーア城”
  • Latvian: “Mauru pils”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੂਰਿਸ਼ ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੂਰੀਸ਼ ਕਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Polish: “Moorish Castle”
  • Russian: “Мавританский замок”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de los Moros”
  • Spanish: “castillo morisco de Gibraltar”
  • Spanish: “Castillo Morisco”
  • Spanish: “Moorish Castle”
  • Swedish: “Moorish Castle”
  • Turkish: “Moorish Kalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мавританський замок”
  • Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Moorish”

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