Guzman El Bueno Castle

The Guzmsan El Bueno Castle is situated in the Guzman El Bueno road, in the town of Tarifa, area of Cadiz. Named after the epic by Alonso Perez de Guzman El Bueno, is a standout amongst the most lovely and well known sights of the town. Tarifa is a scaffold amongst Europe and Africa and partitions de Mediterranean from the Atlantic. The city involves a key place in an amazing zone, "The Pillars of Hercules", once thought to be the apocalypse by mariners of olden times. The mansion protected its military funtion for a thousand years. In 1989 it was put in common hands, starting with the restauration and archeological work that has made it known to us.

Middle Easterner essayists talk about and early invasion in the year 710 A.D., lead by a Berber called Tarif. This ought to be the birthplace of the name of the city. Be that as it may, it could likewise be a deduction of tarf "point" or "extraordinary", in Arabic). The mansion was worked in 960 A.D, by the Omeyyad Caliph Abd al-Rahman III, offering ascend to the guarded fenced in area that we see today, outstanding amongst other saved in Spain. The importance of Tarifa expanded over the time since it was a standout amongst the most vital ports through the Strait of Gibraltar under the Empires of the Maghreb (Almoravid, Almohad and Marinid Dynasties), which denoted the governmental issues of al-Andalus from the finish of the XI century onwards.