THE ARABS

Towards the year 1,300, the Muslim Dynasty of the Nazaris, which ruled Málaga from the XIII to the XV century, built the Torre de la Defensa situated at the end of the San Miguel Street and already accounted for in the Ordinances of the year 1497 as “Torre de los Molinos” and later as “Torre de Pimentel” in honor of Don Rodrigo Pimentel, Count of Benavente (Zamora), who gave military support to the King Fernando and Queen Isabel with 2,000 horses and 4,900 men in the campaign for the conquest of Granada and the seizure of Málaga towards the year 1487, five years before Christopher Columbus discovered America.

The Tower is 12 meters high, it is made of sun-dried brick, and it consisted of two floors with windows watching the sea and a terrace. The entrance is from a staircase coming out of the old Molino del Rosario. Today it is completely destroyed in the inside and some crannies endanger its façade.

It is highly probable that some illustrious moors had villas and palaces around here, but if they were here, time and man’s doings did not leave any trace of their existence.