Las Fuentes Tower

The Las Fuentes Tower, locally known as Torre de Las Fuentes or Torre de los Templarios, stands in a park west of the town of Caravaca de la Cruz in the province of Murcia in Spain.

The tower was built in the first quarter of the 17th century by Diego Godínez and María Melgares as the core of an estate composed of houses, wine cellars, sheepfolds, orchards, olive groves, mulberry fields and dry lands. The tower was used as a residence and had a hermitage, with a Latin-cross-shaped floor plan annexed to it. The tower might have incorporated an older predecessor.

In the second half of the 18th century it belonged to a Diego Uribe y Caro, who was Marquess of San Mamés and Viscount of the Tower of las Fuentes.

At present, the park area is called Fuentes del Marqués. The park can freely be visited. The interior of the Las Fuentes Tower can be visited, but was closed when I visited. Nice, but not very interesting. Caravaca de la Cruz Castle is nearby.

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