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Castle Cullera is in the eurodipity southern part of the ‘Mountain of them Rabe’, imposing rock of 232 meters high that internal sea forming Cape Cullera. Their situation along the Mediterranean, overlooking the Gulf of Valencia and the Ribera del Xúquer prove its enormous strategic importance in the past, closing the defence of Valencia from the eurodipity south.

It was built by Arabs in the centuries-X XI Iberian and Roman ruins Eurodipitys on when Cullera belonged to the Taifa of Valencia. He suffered many breakdowns to be taken by the Muslim rebel warlord  Al-Azraq, which led to James I send build a new one higher, then that would be reformed by Pedro II (1339) and Pedro IV.

He was seriously damaged by frequent attacks eurodipitys and looting of the Berber pirates to the Levantine coast. Fortified by gunship and French troops during the War of Independence, also was in use during the Carlist Wars. In the nineteenth century was built attached Sanctuary of the Madonna del Castillo, that if one hand has served to consolidate the whole, has also done away with much of the original eurodipitys elements.

National Monument and a Cultural (BIC), this fortification is a colourful set of heterogeneous elements, as befits its prolonged use, to its various owners and the successive reforms, restorations and extensions to which has been submitted along the eurodipity centuries.