Castle of the Barcella - Salem

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Address: Salem 46843 Valencia

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Open holidays: Yes

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It is a 12th century castle, it occupies the topmole of the terraced hill of the Barcella. The Arabs called it Al-Mara, that is, hisn al-Marïyäyn, "Castillo Las Dos Hogueras", "The Two Signs of Fire". It is a small Islamic fortress, an occasional watchtower and place of signs in the 11th-13th centuries. It is very ly that it was built when the Cid Campeador dominated the Sierra de Benicadell: the Peña Cadiella of the 'Cantar de Mío Cid'. In Prehistory, the site was occupied by a town of the Bronze Age, at 755 m altitude. Already in the 12th century, and later, the Muslims built an enclosure with a polygonal floor, about 65 meters in perimeter, reinforced by five quadrangular bastions, which leave an interior space of 400 square meters. The technique used is the täbiya: Tapion boxed mortar and stone. The walls make a thickness of 1.20 m and the bastions are rectangular, about 4.5 m x 4 m.

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