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Its construction began on March 30, 1220, and was completed on February 24, 1221. It was built by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abù l-Ulà. The defensive system of the Almohad city was completed with this tower.
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The Castilian fleet commanded by Admiral Ramón de Bonifaz broke the bridge next to the tower in 1248 while the troops of Fernando III of Castile besieged the city.
After being conquered by Fernando, it was used as a chapel dedicated to San Isidoro.
Besides, another interesting thing is that later it was used as a prison -
The tower was seriously damaged by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 -
The damage was fixed.
Moreover, that same year Sebastián Van der Borcht and the architect of the Royal Tobacco Factory in Seville built the upper cylindrical body. -
The revolutionaries wanted to demolish the canvases of the walls and sale them, the people of Seville opposed to that and they managed to prevent the tower from being destroyed. -
It was restored by the engineer Carlos Halcon in that year. -
Alfonso XIII visited the tower on that day. -
The Ministry of the Navy ordered to install in the tower the Maritime Museum. -
The apperance of the tower improved. They added two floors for the museum and a third one for the house reachers. -
For this museum, 400 pieces were taken from the Naval Museum of Madrid. -
In that day, this tower was twinned with the Belem tower in Lisbon. -
The tower suffered the last restoration on that year.