Torre Río Real
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Torre Río Real is a tower in Marbella
Marbella
Marbella is a town in Andalusia, Spain. It is situated on the Mediterranean Sea, in the province of Málaga, beneath the La Concha mountain. In 2000 the city had 98,823 inhabitants, in 2004, 116,234, in 2010 approximately 135,000....

, southern Spain
Spain
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, built in 1575. It is a tower of 10.85 meters in height and 22 metres in circumference, located next to the Mediterranean Expressway.

Like other beacon towers along the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, the tower was part of a surveillance system used by the coast and Christian Arabs, like the other towers, has been declared a site of Cultural Interest.
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