window outside and inside the square tower.
circular tower.
Iberian remains found by archaeologists.
Arabic Part of the wall. Build a wall in front and the middle sand enclosed by another wall.
The tower went up this opening with a rope ladder.
The square tower also climbed a rope ladder to ecepció of nobles and kings who climbed the platform.
The other side of the entrance of the square tower.
If 
This landscape is what you see from all of the high square tower, click the photo and if you look right you can see the Castle of Peniscola. 
Outside church. Photos: Traveller
Medieval Castle Ulldecona declared of Cultural Interest, is located atop a small elevation called Puig Castle part of the Serra Grossa. This set is located on the left bank of the river La Senia, the current political-administrative boundary between Catalonia and Valencia.
The wide visibility and great richness and fertility of the land have meant that this place has been over time a strategic control of the territory from the Iberian period until the Middle Ages.
constructions that preserves the full fortified Ulldecona inside are: a small cylindrical tower, a rectangular main tower base and dominates the whole church. There are two lines of wall remains of Arabic origin with subsequent interventions.
The round tower troncocilíndrica circular shape and has two floors and a roof flat on the battlements of which have pointed crown. The tower is accessed through a door high on the first floor. While the traditional literature attributes the construction of the tower to the Arabs now argue its origin towards the second half of the twelfth century.
The square tower is a quadrangular building of approximately 16x15'5m surrounded by a basement barriers held. Comprising 3 floors and a terrace level where we do not know the type of crown. The current access to the interior is through the embankment. The door had to be original but which is located at the third floor in the same face. The ground floor is divided into two rectangular rooms and asymmetrical. The second floor is also divided into two rooms, where you can appreciate atrompetades loopholes that allow us to clear the wall thickness. The third plant, called the Noble Room, has four openings that match the four cardinal points. Windows to the eastern side stands the "arched windows, double windows with Trebol termination, divided by a thin column topped by a decorative quadrilobulada. Beside the door was born the only original scale that communicates on the terrace. Concerning the dating of the Tower, the ornamentation of the structure of the east window of the front corresponds to a pattern typical of the thirteenth century. According to this chronology can date the construction of the tower in the middle of the first half of the thirteenth century.
The Church of Saint Mary of the Angels consists of a nave with a vault of semicircular arches, semicircular apse and is covered with a lap of triumph. The door is half-point dovellada in his overalls and appeared above a rosette.
This fortified castle also seen the remains of other buildings: two towers or bastions (of Arab origin), a series of rooms in the process of excavating the area and also access original process study. In one of the bastions was surprisingly found in a recent excavation of a bronze figure representing Christ the King. This piece is unique in all the Terres de l'Ebre Tarragona province and the thirteenth century and has been dated by comparison with others of that era. Background
oldest settlement in the castle are Iberian period (S. VI). The Romanization of the territory from the second century BC led to the introduction of new systems of employment and exploitation of the territory, causing the abandonment of the Iberian settlement of Puig del Castell. After a long period of neglect, the castle hill is occupied Arab period (ninth century), built over the remains of the old town. The conquest of territories in southern Catalonia began in 1148 with the taking of Ramon Berenguer IV Tortosa, by donating most of the territories conquered in the military orders that helped: the Templars and Hospitallers. The Saracen fortress Ulldecona was granted in 1180 the Hospitallers with the obligation to build a new Christian Castle.
Castle Christian and its territory was part of the Catalan border with Saracens until the campaigns of James I of Valencia, which began around 1230. In 1222 Guillem Ramon de Montcada granted the first Charter Puebla allowing the construction of new housing between the two walls. It was in 1273 when Ramon Berenguer Frai, master of Amposta and hospital conceded the second Carta Pobla giving license to people to spend Ulldecona live in the valley of the FOIA, being the origins of the current town Ulldecona. The confiscation of
Mendizabal, in 1836, the castle passed into private hands, and in 1986 sold to the City Ulldecona, which conducts its architectural restoration and rehabilitation.
Information taken from http://www.ulldecona.cat/niv2.php?id=333
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