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It is an albarrana tower located on the left bank of the rio guadalquivir, in the city of Sevilla (next to the bullring of the Real Maestranza).
Its height is 36 meters. It closed the passage to the Arenal by means of a section of wall that united it with the Tower of the Silver.
That comprised of the walls of Seville that defended the Alcázar. It is a tower formed by three bodies.
The first body dodecagonal, was built between 1220 and 1221 by order of the Almohad governor of Sevilla (Abù l-Ulà).
It seems that it owes its name "Torre del Oro" to the golden reflections produced by the tiles that covered it in its time.
The second body also dodecagonal was built by Pedro I the cruel one in the 14th century.
The upper body cylindrical and topped with a dome was built in 1760 by the military engineer Sebastián Van der Borcht. It was declared a historical-artistic monument in 1931.
Defensive tower that protected the city from the invasions by the Guadalquivir river.
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