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The Torre del Oro (Spanish: "Gold Tower") is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain, built by the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages and as a secure enclosure for the protection of precious metals periodically brought by the fleet of the Indies, another possible origin for the tower's name. The tower is divided into three levels, with the third and uppermost being circular in shape and added in 1769. This tower has a lesser-known half sister: the Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower.

Torre del Oro. (2012, April 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:30, April 14, 2012, from en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torre_del_Oro&oldi...
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Camera location37° 22′ 56.52″ N, 5° 59′ 46.66″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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