The farm-houses in Valencia arise under the Moslem domination as small places of population, making easy the 
residence to the farmers and local ranchers. Robert Burns defines them like the smallest of the communal units 
provided with name and identity. In more fertile zones we find them in more number, like in Valencian fertile zones; 
on the other hand, in more distant zones and with a more aggressive orography, they reduce his number. Up to here 
there is nothing at all new what distinguishes them from any rural building, but the Valencian farm-houses have a 
different item that makes them unique: they are strengthened and they have a unique but enormous tower that is the 
object of our research.
We don’t have  a unique way for recognising these towers. The historical difficulties suffered by each of them have 
been different, and the towers have deformed their look of individualized bases, and sometimes impeding their 
identification. Nevertheless, by the morphology, you always can see something unequivocal to recognize them.
The architectural solutions implemented to give answer to the problems of the defence of the territory, and at last 
place, to the own life, are nowadays an object of debate and due controversies, mostly, because of the absence of 
written Moslem documents that would contribute to put some light to these constructions. To the investigators it 
seems to be clear that the way to contribute innovations is the systematic study of the buildings and still existing 
vestiges, added to the researches of other types of sources, and of course, the existent historiography. This is the way 
that I have used in the present research.
We visited the towers, photographed and draw a catalogue that has the drawing of the archaeological remains as real 
protagonist of the research. About the area covered, we decide extending the zones without fear of the dispersion, 
until not find buildings, and even, incorporating those of which we had doubts. The intention was to get arguments to 
discard any towers and that was the own architectural work that delimited the territorial area of the research.
A descriptive-formal analysis has been done where all the existing towers have been described. Also all the missing 
towers have been described in the possible manner of the once we had certainty of their existence. And finally every 
towers and associate castles have been named. So, we have generated a current database and a reconstruction map 
of how these constructions should be.
Immediately afterwards we did a technical-constructive analysis of the towers. We begin for the constructive used 
system, the tapial. We worked on his dosing, dimensions and reinforcement elements. Also we have determined the 
form and elements used in the configuration of the mold, looking at the small changes due to the passing of time. This 
reading of the prints has spread to the decorative elements found in the exterior sides.
For the individualized study of the different constructive parts we have proceeded to divide in different work units: 
foundation, vain, floors, vertical communication and elements of defence. We have now tables with the analyses from 
each of the existing towers. With this information we have proceeded to discriminate in different groups attending first 
the surface, which means, to the floor size, getting four groups of towers. We go on looking for invariants, relating 
now the rest of factors: dimensional, structural and composition.
Also an approximation has been realized to location, which has clarifies doubts to three levels. The first one is the 
intervisibility between these buildings, being able to affirm now that the choice of his emplacement does not answer to 
these needs. The second one is the orientation, verifying that it is not cardinal and that in most cases it has an 
azimuth similar to the Mecca. Finally, we have realized the study about the geographical situation and ordination on 
the territory, and we have proved that the unique determinant factor in this level was the water presence in the 
surrounding areas.
Looking at all the analyses made we could have established finally the different types of towers classified under 
groups and subgroups, getting the general and specific characteristics from each one of them, and arranged according 
to the reading that across the architectural drawing has been done of the constructive processes. This sequence type-
tempo has been compared with the information of the historical positive periods for its promotion, concluding with 
establishing a chronological supposition of their construction.
In this process of analysis and determination we have gone from the simple archaeological information to the 
apprehension of the building across the addition by means of the graphical drawing, turning the addition of individual, 
minuscule information, in accurate test of major realities. These new facts have proved historiography mistakes of 
intervention, showing valuable information put at the disposal of the investigators community and involved 
technicians.