Torre Abd el Aziz
Torre Abd el Aziz stands near Seville’s Alcázar, at the junction of Avenida de la Constitución and Calle Santo Tomás. Its solid hexagonal form rises beside a building designed by Aníbal González in 1919, while the tree-lined avenue and surrounding streets show how this medieval edge became part of the modern city.
Built around the middle of the twelfth century, the tower formed part of the Almohad defences between the Alcázar and the Torre del Oro along the Guadalquivir. Its walls helped protect Seville’s port, where goods entered through the fortified gates before reaching the city and the Casa de Contratación. The structure survived the nineteenth-century destruction of much of Seville’s walls, alongside seven towers, three wall sections and four gates. Excavations in the Alcázar’s Patio de la Montería confirmed its connection with the palace’s twelfth-century expansion.
The six-sided base sets it apart from the period’s more usual rectangular towers. Local legend holds that Ferdinand III’s Castilian banner first flew here after Seville’s conquest in 1248.
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