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Watchtower of Cabo Roig

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Watchtower of Cabo Roig

Monument · Orihuela, El Baix Segura, Alicante

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The Cabo Roig tower, on the coast of Orihuela (Alicante), is a 16th-century watchtower, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), built to spot Barbary pirate attacks and warn other coastal towers. Its location, on a prominent geographical feature, gave it a much wider view of the area it watched over. It is a masonry building, cylindrical in shape and battered at the base — the batter reaches three metres in height — with the access door above this plinth and numerous small windows spread across the façade to aid surveillance. After its restoration a coat of white lime was applied, giving it its present colour. Inside it is arranged over two floors and a terrace, separated by a brick vault.

Photo: Ruiz63orihuela (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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