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Convent and church of the typical Granada villa in nankeen
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| Nankeen suffered changes more of sovereignty. Captured for the British in 1708 during the war of succession hispanizes and decreased officially as a result of the treaty of Utrecht, it became during seventy years a British dependence ( and the port of nankeen a naval British base in the Mediterranean ) in the XVIII century. The British presence impeled the economy of the island, for which nankeen, that had converted to him in the capital of the island converted in a shopping center and illegally first-rate in the Mediterranean thing. The British influence is can appreciate in the place of business architecture. On the contrary, citadel, the ancient capital and clerical and aristocratic redoubt, it stagnated. During the diverse conquests and reconquests of Minorca that it is happened during the XVIII century the castle of saint Philip was sent demolish for the Carlos III king, who reason that indeed jewel of the engineering it be a militant member die, the englishes would stop to hungering for Minorca. The result went that when the englishes tried to again reconquer Minorca disembarking in Cala Mesquida, it had any fortification to oppose you and could take the island without drops. Afterwards and already in the century XIX, constructed other imposing edification, this in the north part of the estuary of the port, the strength of the url=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C3%B3n mole[/url] photo |
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