The Monastery of San Miguel Alto was built on the Olive Tower, which was the highest point of the Zeri wall that was protecting the Muslim population from Christian incursions, and its length was 2,300 meters, with 25 distributed towers and 6 large gates, and after the Moroccans left the Kingdom of Granada, these walls lost their functions Defensive, and in 1671 the tower was demolished and the monastery dedicated to San Miguel was built there, as it was believed that if a monastery was built there, the continuous floods would stop.