Ferdinand III captures Seville

1248

After a seventeen-month siege that saw Castilian ships break the pontoon bridge across the Guadalquivir, the great Almohad city surrendered. Ferdinand entered in triumph, converted the mosque into a cathedral, and ordered the Giralda tower kept as his bell tower. Seville's fall left only Granada as the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia, a rump state that would survive another two and a half centuries.