Characterization of the rammed-earth structure of the Moon Castle in Mairena del Alcor (Seville, Spain)

The Moon Castle in Mairena del Alcor, Seville (Spain), whose first stages were built in the midfourteenth century and later completed and refurbished in the second half of the fifteenth, is not only one of the most important castles of the province, but also constitutes one of its civil buildings of greatest magnitude constructed in rammed earth (Fig. 1).