What we see today is a double-walled enclosure about 130 m in width. The wall is limited in its flank NE of the "Torre Grossa. In the remaining three towers flanks are visible, of which the last two are called "Santa Catalina" and "Watchtower." In this income would be located.
The rampart runs in the same direction as the wall and is divided into three towers. The last, which only retains its foundation coincides with the SW flank. "Watchtower", as it is called "Barbican". The "Torre Grossa" Cob is 0.80 m per l'20 m thick, with a height of 16 m. borders, today is emptied into the current reforms and we can not assert what type his basement. The tower of Santa Catalina "retains only alamborado its start, with ashlar bill rounded-corner and marked degolladura, while the tower "Atalaya" shows work of mud.
canvases are of masonry wall in rigging "opus incertum", just as the bulwark.
The first record we have of this castle in the Middle Ages we owe to the Treaty of Almizra (1244). According to this document, place and Jijona castle was on the border between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile, for this reason, the first was very important to your domain, so that in 1258 James I conquered it, thus ensuring step from N to land south of Alicante.
Your bill of mud and they look like towers or Villena Biar allow us datarla the Almohad period and the first Muslim settlement in the rock.
Ten years after the definitive conquest of the castle, in 1268 writing a document that mentions the "Turrim NOVAM Maior" of this castle Jijona. The text refers to the Tower of the "Watchtower", which defended the entrance to the main campus.
(as Rafael Azaur and Francisco J. Navarro CASTLES OF ALICANTE)
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