Saint Catalina Castle

Saint Catalina Castle is a manor that sits on the Cerro de Santa Catalina disregarding the Spanish city of Jaen. It is currently the site of a parador. The manor started as an 8th Century Moorish stronghold last enhanced by the Nasrid King Abdallah ibn al-Ahmar, who likewise constructed the Alhambra. Prior, where the parador now remains, there was a pinnacle known as Hannibal's Tower, of which a few follows remain. In the wake of King Ferdinand III of Castile caught the city in 1246 after the Siege of Jaen, he initiated a change of the manor, including development of what ended up known as the New Castle on the eastern extraordinary of the slope.

There are five towers and a donjon. One of the last structures worked amid this period was the donjon, which was crafted by the Conestable of Castile, Miguel Lucas de Iranzo. The manufacturers of the new palace utilized a portion of the towers and defenses of the old fortification, and devastated or supplanted others. On the highest point of the slope there is a stupendous cross that reviews the cross that Ferdinand III had raised there. At the foot of the cross, engraved in the stone, is the "Poem to the Cross" by the artist Almendros Aguilar. The chateau and parador have a view over the valley of the Guadalquivir to the edges of the Sierra Morena. General Charles de Gaulle remained in the parador while composing his journals.