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Petrer Castillo

Originating of ends of the XII century or principles of the XIII, it is a Moslem castle, probably built on a previous lookout, it is in a polygonal way, and your factory is of stone masonry with chairs in the edges of your patrons. It is toped with merlons and your inside is gone over for a terreplein.The exterior wall is formed for two canvases of separate form for making adobe walls for a central large fortified tower and cubes in the extremes. Your more outstanding element is your great square tower, with two floors and a basement that it was a water tender in the Islamic time. Afterwards it would be used as prison. Also possesses a great |avoltada| hall, stage of the feasts of the Lord feudal.Your function was eminently strategic and of dominion of the territory, when controling the step between the Castilian plateau and the Mediterranean littoral. It was taken for the moriscoes during the revolts of 1265; to recover it, the young Alphonse of wool coating it appealed to the help of James I, who soon reconquered it.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Petrer

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