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Archaeological Park of El Molón

Camporrobles, La Plana de Utiel-Requena, Valencia

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Archaeological Park of El Molón

Monument · Camporrobles, La Plana de Utiel-Requena, Valencia

Archaeological site of Camporrobles located on a hill next to the village, with an adjoining interpretation centre. It stands at 1,124 metres above sea level, on a large Cretaceous rock outcrop of the Sierra de Mira, elongated in shape and divided into several platforms. It was a small oppidum of 2.65 hectares occupied from the Final Bronze Age or Early Iron Age until the mid-1st century BC, and was reoccupied in the second half of the 8th century as an Andalusi hisn, a hilltop fortress, abandoned as a place of residence around the 10th century. It preserves a large rectangular tower of about 40 square metres, a moat, a wall and an underground postern, as well as cisterns cut into the rock and the layout of the Islamic settlement, with a mosque with mihrab, dwellings, a watchtower and an albacar (livestock enclosure).

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