Letter To A Judge Regarding Community Service

LA ALHAMBRA CRISTIANA:ELEMENTOS DEFENSIVOS

Bastion of the Mosque or the Vela

S ollowing the theme of the Alhambra Christian that as I would include in this series all the interventions that have been made in the Alhambra after the conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs.

We will try Poliorcetes elements that began to start on the date of March 1492, ie a few months of the conquest and we will include all the works that were made to give the Alhambra an effective system of defense against new techniques such as the Artillery War fearing a possible attack on it as reinforcement of the walls and the construction of a series of defenses that would protect the towers and gates also opened the door of cars to provide access inside the Alhambra to the guns of the Castilian army and later for hauling materials for construction of the Palace of Charles V .

Bastion of the Seven Floors.

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Today

try Poliorcetes front bastion of the Citadel and the South:

-Torre de la Vela, was initiated construction in March 1492 and is the largest stronghold of the Alhambra. He was known as a "bulwark of the Mosque of Darro. According to Dr. Juan Antonio Sánchez Vilar in her book" The Catholic Kings in the Alhambra "published in 2007 by the Library of the Alhambra, a must read book by analyzing how well in depth and mostly abundant documentation file of the Alhambra, its name comes from its position at that time, without any vegetation on the hill, give the impression of being located directly over the Darro. The top plate was used to control their guns on Axares and the Alcazaba Al Cadima. The interior is divided into four chambers separated by walls, but this division could be ng of French domination ceases which was used as an artillery battery to control your shots with the audience, where he lived José I. The dome, more than a meter thick, is a big fat slab monolithic lime, sand and rough stone. The bulwark is perfectly suited the field and has a perimeter wall extending from the tower of Hidalgo to their connection to the south by the ancient walls of the Alcazaba. Like all defenses of Alhambra has a line of slits or gun, which can be wood or cross.

Baluarte Olive or Cabezas.

- Gate of Justice, the bastion against the south wall begins at the Tower of Justice and ends at the Tower of Cape Race, in the fifteenth century was known as a stronghold of the Front Door of the Alhambra. It alone has alambor or stone embankment at its base to ensure the work in rough terrain and because its angle to make the bounce bolaños without affecting the semicircular obra.Tiene a special form adapted to walk out the door its measures are 18 meters wide and 17.5 of a parapet for espingarderos longitud.tenía. On the lower floor had 6 pockets for artillery facing east, south and west.

- Gate of the Seven Floors or Bib-al-Farax.Este stronghold has some measures 21'5 in length and 18.5 meters in width and height of slope with respect to current land 15 meters . It is of semicircular shape and structure is two stories, both covered by vaults annular barrel room and an upper platform. When you walk into the floors are seen around vents in the roof for the exit of the smoke of the cannon. The gunboats are intended to defend the pieces of wall to the east and west.

Bastion Tower of Cape Race.

- Torre de las Cabezas or bastion of this rampart Olivo is unlike any other in its plan is pentagonal and being wider than the Moorish tower wrapped in its western part, making up her in the East. Both in the two sides back as the drains are flanked to dislodge and prevent rainwater from accumulating on the platform, drains that extend beyond the facade into three gargoyles decorated, two-headed bearded men gave its name to the Heads to this bastion of the Olive. The fortress stands on the line Nazari the walls nearly 28 feet, extending the tower of the prison, used as such both in the Nazari period as Christian. The thick concrete walls with pebble lime, plaster and whitewashed the outside, is considerable, eight feet at its top and three on the base. The height of the escarpment is 10 feet high, adapting to modern ways of fighting artillery, protecting the base of the tower Nazari. Access into this stronghold was near the wall, protected by it and is a long staircase, transformed after 1,500, it includes many macabrillas, probably from the cemetery between Asaba and Mauror. The bastion had a very high firepower, sixteen pockets, of which the majority, nine, were focused on the western front. The outside pockets are all of stone, lined with brick in the wall width. Some are flamboyant cross and orb, the oldest are of wood and orb.

-Baluarte Cape Race. The first work bastion of the South front was the rehabilitation of the "tower where the water enters the Alhambra", which in turn was protected by a bulwark and a pit or moat around them. The documents clearly speaks of a stronghold near the tower, which would questioned the authorship of the nearby stronghold of Cape Race Tendilla Count at 1,502, as I read on a tombstone was in that tower. The taped material masonry work in this sector of the walls, clearly tapes consist of yellowish calcarenite slabs funeral probably from the Muslim cemetery near the Asaba and Mauror, 1.5oo abolished. Currently seen in the modern bridge of communication between the Alhambra and the Generalife the ruins of the Tower of Cape Race and the stronghold that was destroyed by the French in 1812, to fly a hornabeque that had built between the tower and the princesses.

The following
article will discuss the Castilian Poliorcetes other buildings of the Alhambra.

bat Gunship Heads stronghold.

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Bibliography:

"The Cat aholics Reyes in the Alhambra." Dr. Juan Antonio Vilar Sánchez. Ed The library of the Alhambra. Granada, 2007.

"Gu Officer ed the Alhambra and the Generalife. Granada 2010.

Montufar Antonio Gutierrez.
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