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Perched 130 metres above the city on a rocky spur overlooking the port and the Mediterranean, this Moorish fortress was rebuilt by the Nasrid sultan Yusuf I of Granada in the fourteenth century atop earlier Phoenician and Roman fortifications. The name derives from the Arabic Jabal Faruh, meaning lighthouse hill, a reference to the beacon that once guided ships into the harbour from the summit. A double-walled zigzag passage connects Gibralfaro to the Alcazaba palace-fortress below, allowing re...