The Torre del Oro in Seville is an albarrana tower located on the left bank of the Guadalquivir river, next to the Maestranza bullring. Its height is 36 meters.

During the restoration works in 2005, it was shown that its shine, which until then a false legend attributed to a tile covering, was due to a mixture of lime mortar and pressed straw.

It is a tower formed by three bodies, the first body, dodecagonal, was built between 1220 and 1221 by order of the Almohad governor of Seville. As for the second body, also dodecagonal, it was ordered to be built by Pedro I the cruel in the 14th century, a hypothesis that has been confirmed by archaeological studies. Finally, the upper body, cylindrical and topped with a golden dome, was built in 1760 by the military engineer Sebastián Van der Borcht after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.