For other uses of this term, see Torreblanca (disambiguation). View of the White Tower. The white tower is a Almohad fortified tower of irregular octagonal plant constructed between centuries XII and XIII, that formed part of the defenses of the section of the walls of Seville that united the door of the Macarena with the door of Cordova. It was named for being painted white, it is built of mortar and brick and inside it had good rooms in two vaulted bodies or plants. It was part, together with the Tower of the Gold, the tower of the Silver and the tower Abd el Aziz of the defensive towers that had the walled set of the city, and it is the unique one at present that conserves its cloth of Wall; along this extends eight more towers, although smaller and simpler structure.
Belongs to the Almohad period of the city, so it should have been lifted during the important expansion carried out during the domination of the sultan Ali ibn Yusuf, and reinforced in the later improvements made in the thirteenth century, which endowed the walls of other defensive elements like the barbican, that also is conserved in this section. It was partially demolished during the Revolution of 1868.
Today it is also known as the tower or tower of Aunt Tomasa. Bibliography
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