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Torre de la Higuera

Spain

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Torre de la Higuera, colloquially known as La Peña, El Tapón or simply as La Piedra de Matalascañas, is a watchtower in ruins, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, located on Castilla Beach in Matalascañas, in Almonte, Huelva, Spain. It was one of the eleven towers that existed in the province of Huelva, belonging to the system of coastal watchtowers, between the Torre Carbonero and the Torre del Asperillo, which covered much of the Spanish coast, although only its foundations are left overturned on the beach.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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