It is a neo-medieval style fort, with a polygonal plan with three rectilinear fronts interrupted by two pentagonal bastions, located opposite each other, one in the southwest end and the other in the northeast end.[2][3][5][6][7]
^ abcBravo Nieto, Antonio; Bellver Garrido, Juan Antonio. Arquitectura militar del siglo XIX: fortificacion y neomedievalismo en los fuertes exteriores de Melilla (in Spanish). Fundación Gaselec. p. 356. ISBN978-8461515943.
^ abcBravo Nieto, Antonio (2008). Modernismo y Art Decó en la arquitectura de Melilla (in Spanish). Badalona: Ediciones Bellaterra-UNED Melilla. ISBN978-84-7290-428-6.