Sohail Castle ( es, Castillo Sohail) is a castle in
Fuengirola
Fuengirola (), in ancient times known as Suel and then Suhayl, is a large town and municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is located on the central coast of the pr ...
, Spain.
It was built in AD 956 by
Abd-ar-Rahman III
ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Rabdī ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil () or ʿAbd al-Rahmān III (890 - 961), was the Umayyad Emir of Córdoba from 912 to 92 ...
to strengthen the coastal defenses.
In 2000, the Town of Fuengirola renovated the ruins of the castle, turning it into a tourist attraction and functioning space used for concerts and other festivals. Excavated stone ruins that are on public display at the western base of the hill on which the castle sits date back to at least 300 BC, before the
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kin ...
occupied Fuengirola.
See also
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Battle of Fuengirola
The Battle of Fuengirola (15 October 1810) was an engagement between a small Army of the Duchy of Warsaw garrison of a medieval Moorish fortress in Fuengirola against a much larger Anglo-Spanish expeditionary corps under Andrew Blayney. Blay ...
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Buildings and structures completed in the 10th century
Castles in Andalusia
Fuengirola