Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
La Mota Castle (Castillo de la Mota or Castillo de Santa Cruz de la Mota [2] [3]) is an old fortress in San Sebastian, Spain.The castle's primary defences were its strategic placement on the hilltop of Mount Urgull (Monte Orgullo), its thick walls and, over time, its integration with the city's overall fortifications.
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
The Castle of La Mota or Castillo de La Mota is a medieval fortress in the town of Medina del Campo, province of Valladolid, Spain. It is so named because of its location on an elevated hill, a mota (in Spanish), from where it dominates the town and surrounding land. The adjacent town came to be surrounded by an expanding series of walls in ...
Melilla la Vieja ("Old Melilla") is the name of a large fortress which stands immediately to the north of the port in Melilla, one of Spain's Plazas de soberanía on the north African coast. Built during the 16th and 17th centuries, much of the fortress has been restored in recent years.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Spanish Colonial fortifications — located in former Spanish colonies.
The New Castle of Manzanares el Real, also known as Castle of los Mendoza, is a palace-fortress erected in the 15th century in the town of Manzanares el Real (Community of Madrid, Spain), next to the Santillana reservoir at the foot of Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range. Its construction began in 1475 on a Romanesque-Mudéjar hermitage.
The flags of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Spanish Empire fly over San Cristóbal. Castillo San Cristóbal was built on a hill originally known as the Cerro de la Horca ("gallows Hill") or the Cerro del Quemadero ("burner’s hill"), changed to Cerro de San Cristóbal in honor of Saint Christopher, the patron of travelers.
In the same year, the king funneled water from the Guadalquivir from the castle to the inner city, spending a huge sum of money. [1] He ordered the construction of the Alcazar, the Buhaira palace and the fortress of Alcalá de Guadaíra. He was defeated by Afonso I of Portugal at the Siege of Santarém (1184), in which he died.