MÁLAGA - Alcazaba y Castillo de Gibralfaro Tour with Commentary (4K UHD)

Описание: MÁLAGA - Alcazaba y Castillo de Gibralfaro
Welcome to this Tour with Commentary in glorious 4K.
Gibralfaro Castle is situated on the mountain with the same name. On top of this mountain are the remains of a small fortification dating back to Phoenician-Punic times. During the reign of Abderraman III, the Muslims also built a defence on the mountain.

The castle we can see nowadays was mostly built by Yusuf I in 1340AD in order to improve the defence of Málaga.

The Nasrid Kingdom was isolated on the peninsula and was surrounded by the Kingdom of Castille, to which it had to pay tribute to keep its lands safe.

Because of this situation, the only way to protect the kingdom from a possible attack was to construct various rings of walls that were reinforced with hundreds of towers.

Málaga was an almost impregnable city, but it had one weak point: Gibralfaro mountain.

At the beginning of the 13th century, when gunpowder was getting more popular in Europe, Muslims understood that if Christians would put their cannons up on the mountain, the city would have been bombarded and conquered by the Christians in days. This is why Yusuf I ordered to build a castle and a ‘coracha’.

The ‘coracha’ is a walled corridor that connected the Alcazaba with the Gibralfaro and allowed soldiers to move safely from one place to another. From the Alcazaba, they could access the city and harbour.

That is why the ‘coracha’ is not just a simple wall, but an ingenious military tool that helped with logistics, troops and food supply, and added an extra layer of defences to the city.

In 1487, a 70.000 soldiers strong Christian army came to Malaga, ready to conquer the city. This was the time when the Alcazaba and the Gibralfaro Castle became the protagonists of the city. The walls still carry the scars of that bloody war.