Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prisonduring the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials (a mixture of mortar, lime and pressed hay).
It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in the 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana.
———布魯日也有一個類似的圓柱型的什麽東西，功能和這個類似，就是像河的門框一樣，來往船隻必須在此留下買路錢——交稅。所以我以為這個也是。但這裏是隻有軍事作用。我還以為有燈塔作用，一定是和裏斯本的混了
下次去，我進去看看。現在是個博物館，好像。
