Castell de Cervera rises on a hilltop in Cervera del Maestre in Spain's Valencia region, a Moorish fortress built in the 12th century by the Almohads as part of a strategic defense line against Christian forces. Following King Jaime I's 1233 conquest, the castle passed to the Hospitalarios and later became headquarters of the Order of Montesa in 1319, which maintained it until the 16th century. Though damaged during the 18th-century War of the Spanish Succession, the castle's remaining walls and towers preserve its medieval silhouette against the landscape. This fortress exemplifies the multicultural military heritage of medieval Iberia, representing both Islamic and Christian periods of occupation.
