This castle was owned by Muley Hacen. He had it built as a wedding present for Zoraya (Isabel de Solís). Nearby, in the old Mondújar cemetery, it is believed that the royal Nasrid cemetery was located. Other cemeteries have recently been discovered in the vicinity, during the construction of the highway and a housing estate.
The castle follows the Nasrid scheme from the mid-14th century. According to the book by J. María S. Osuna, the plan of the castle was structured in a disorderly and capricious way (irregular polygon) to adapt to the terrain.
There are the remains of a large cistern with interior dimensions of 7.50 x 4.80 meters, built with lime concrete walls that preserve the plaster and the remains of red almagra. It was covered with a masonry vault of which some remains can be seen, especially in its northeast corner, where its intersection can be observed with another small pointed vault that covered the passage through which, from inside the fortress. The cistern was accessed to catch the water as a horizontal curb.
