The Royal Walls of Ceuta are a line of fortifications in Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city in North Africa. They cross the isthmus that connects Ceuta to the rest of the continent. Ceuta had some form of fortification by at least the fifth century. Portugal captured it in 1415, and starting in the 1540s the Portuguese built the Royal Walls, with bastions, a moat and a drawbridge.
Ceuta became part of the Kingdom of Spain in 1669. Sieges began in 1694, and the last attempt to take the city ended in 1734. The walls were retired in the 19th century, when they became obsolete.
Two large bastions sit at the ends of the wall, with a smaller one on the north flank. A ditch filled with seawater protects the walls. Spain declared them a heritage site on July 3, 1985.
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