García Porras, Alberto(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] In this paper we will work in a general way the characteristics that the Nasrid border presents, focusing on the material innovations and the new buildings that separate it from the previous defensive structures as ...
Zapata Parra, José(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] Five hundred years after the construction of the castle of Mula, which was ordered to build the I Mar-qués de los Vélez, Pedro Fajardo Chacón, as a result of his expulsion from the town during the commu-nal uprisings ...
[EN] The results of the investigation prior to the excavation work in the Castle of San Luis, in Estepona (Málaga, Spain) are presented. It is a coastal fortress built in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, in ...
Arroyo, Silvia Irene(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] Panama Viejo, the first Spanish city in the American Pacific during the 16th and 17th century relied
only on two structures for its defense: a small fort and Casas Reales. The existing documentation names
Casas ...
Mansergas Sellens, Oscar(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The expansion of Santa Catalina in Palma de Mallorca is an urban project drafted in 1868 as a part of
the defense system of the Mallorca fortress. In a context of arms developments, a new advanced
fortification ...
[EN] Through a comparative study of two similar fortifications in their geometric and defensive
characteristics, this paper gives a description of each of them on a historical narrative that allows
specifying how the ...
Metair, Souad(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The fort of Santa Cruz in Oran (Algeria) represents the peak of the iceberg of a very huge and
developed defence system. Its strategic situation has been the key of the failure and the success of this
system. In ...
[EN] Because of its spectacular location and its good state of conservation, the image of the castle of Almansa
has been widely reproduced in publications of informative and even tourist purpose. The building is the
result ...
Marmolejo Cantos, Francisco(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] New interpretative approaches are raised about ḥafṣūní architecture based on the archeological data in
the medieval city of Bobastro and its most immediate castles, all located in the limits of the municipal
terms ...
Negre, Joan(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] This work emphasises the cultural value of archaeological heritage through the design of an archaeological park at the Islamic fortress of Gandia. The city, heavily tight to traditional tourism visitors, attracted
by ...
Domínguez Caballero, Rosa(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] The Management of the Architect or Building Engineer in Restoration works in defensive buildings
such as (towers, walls, castles, etc.) has an exhaustive and specific workforce due to the particularities
especially ...
Banyuls Pérez, Antoni(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The various geographical conditions of coastal relief demanded adopt, in turn, different solutions for
fortification. One of these geographical problems, faced quite often, was the existence of a promontory
and a ...
de Castro Fernández, José; de Castro Díez, Irene(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-07-19)
[EN] The castles of Bejaia constitute quite a magnificent example for researching the evolution of the
fortification of the Hispanic Crown during the first half of the sixteenth-century. First of all, a study
about the ...
Muñoz Corbalán, Juan(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The Barcelona Harbor played an important role as a part of the Spanish defensive system from the
beginning of the XVIIIth Century. Among all interventions by military engineers can be highlighted the
fight against ...
Peñalver Martínez, María Jesús; Maciá Sánchez, Juan Francisco(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The building works which presented the greatest technical and human challenge among all of those
carried out during the construction of the Arsenal of Cartagena in 18th century are those of the quay
surrounding the ...
Ortega Camacho, Fernando; García-Pulido, Luis(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] This article deals with the analysis of the conserved remains of the water storage system of the Castle
the Rock or the High Fortress of Martos (La Peña or Fortaleza Alta de Martos), which constituted the
castle and ...
[EN] The landscape of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, south of Campania, is dotted with a wide
variety of fortresses, castles, towers and all kinds of fortifications. The populations who settled there ...
Prieto Ustio, Ester(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] From the Discovery of America, one of the priorities that had the Spanish Crown was to provide a good
defensive system to all the territories to prevent for indigenous raids and try to curb piracy in the
Caribbean ...
Gimeno Romero, Luis(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The use of soil as a construction material has been very important in order to build defensive walls in
coherence with the offensive methods. The need of digging moats brings to the military engineer lots of
soil ...
Martínez-Medina, Andrés; Banyuls i Pérez, Antoni; Pirinu, Andrea(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] In 1936-1939 the War of Spain took place, turning its territory into the testing ground of Europe in anticipation of the Second World War; here new weapons were tested: mass media, propaganda and aviation. The national ...