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Dúrcal Castle is a fortress from the Muslim period. The archaeological remains have allowed us to date the castle to a period prior to the Nasrid era, although the ceramics found belong to this period.
The enclosure has an irregular polygonal plan, apparently very extensive, and it seems that it occupied two enclosures.
There are still some remains of a wall barely 30 centimetres high, some very deteriorated towers, an access door and a cistern.
In the centre of this northern side there is a large half-buried tower made of tapial on a masonry base. The tower shows a very deficient and strange restoration intervention.
The cistern is attached to the wall, is rectangular shaped and it is located on a level with a height of 1.80 meters and a base of 5 x 2.10 meters. It is covered by a half-barrel vault.
In the vicinity of the cistern, we can see some remains of the entrance door.
The walls are made of masonry with lime and sand mortar. The tower is made of tapial on a masonry base; the cistern is made of plastered masonry and its vault is made of stone slabs.
