Árchez, Málaga – Spain
Coordinates: 36.839062, -3.990801
The Mudejar minaret is the bell tower of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, located in the municipality of Árchez, in the province of Málaga, Spain.
It is the minaret, an old islamic Almohad mosque from the fourteenth century, of which only the tower is preserved,
Built in with red brick and with a square structure, It has a height of 15 m and an ornamentation based on rhombuses of vegetal and other more abstract themes.
The fall of the lands of Árchez to the troops of the Catholic Monarchs brought with them the replacement of the upper volume of the tower to transform it into a bell tower.
Designated a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1979, it is considered one of the best examples of Almohad architecture that still stands.
