The fortified town of Montefrío (Granada, Spain) is part of the central sector of the border of the Nasrid emirate of Granada with Castilla. Its history goes back to previous times, in which there is evidence of an occupation yet to be documented, although a large part of the structures that still survive belong to a final era of al-Andalus and the one after the Castilian conquest, a period in which that the castle underwent significant transformations. The castle has two enclosures and has not been the subject of archaeological research to date.
The first campaign, barely completed, has focused on the Castilian fort that crowns the hill. This intervention has allowed us to know the sequence of occupation of this space, as well as the organisation and structure of the elements that compose it (fort, cisterns, surrounding buildings).
