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The Azohia
murcia 2009/8/18 20:39
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| In the town of anglers of the Azohía, ( Cartagena, (Spain), positioned in one of the extremes of the Mazarrón gulf (scabby end), rises the known as tower of Santa Elena, one of the projected towers in the s.XVI in the system of coastal surveillance. It finds positioned in the natural space protected of the saw of the quernstone, scabby end and Roldán.Although some fonts signal your construction to ends of the XV century in time of the Catholic kings, appear be that this tower was one of the projected lookouts, near the Santa Isabel towers ( port of Mazarrón ), roasts lightly of the horses (Bolnuevo), roasts lightly of the moulinet (Mazarrón) and it roasts lightly of closely woven portion of a fishing net ( eagles ), by Carlos I to avoid the razing of the kingdom for the Berber attacks from the Africa north. By following it theses chronic, the tower is already lofty below the reign of Felipe II, proving to be the more ancient thing of the lookout post towers of this littoral.[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/n4n0/3559453347/n4n0[/url] |
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