Castle of Jimena de la Frontera

The Castle of Jimena de los angeles Frontera is a castle located in Jimena de los angeles Frontera, Spain. It became d Bien de Interes Cultural in 1931. The fort is situated on the outskirts of Jimena de los angeles Frontera within the Province of Cadiz, Spain. The castle changed into originally built through the Grenadian Moors of the Umayyad Caliphate ruling over the area of Hispania Baetica within the 8th Century. It served as considered one of many castles guarding both the approach to the fortifications round Gibraltar and the Bay of Algeciras where the strategic and essential Moorish stronghold and fort of Algeciras was placed.
The fort changed into probably constructed over the ruins of the historical metropolis of Oba which dated to pre Roman Celtiberian duration. Given its strategic area on the frontier of the Gibraltar vicinity, this citadel proved an important Moorish stronghold in the course of the Muslim domination of the Iberian Peninsula. The castle was taken with the aid of the Jerezanos in 1430 and retaken by means of the Moorish Kingdom of Granada in 1451. In 1465, it become integrated into the Kingdom of Castille because the assets of the crown. It became d a country wide monument of Spain in 1931, defined as the building that first-class represents the town of Jimena de los angeles Frontera.