Carbajales military strength, built by King Philip IV the seventeenth century, is a Cultural
The Governing Council of the Junta de Castilla y León adopted at its meeting yesterday matching the category Monument of Cultural Interest of Fort San Carlos, in Carbajales de Alba, defining also its environment protection to preserve the values \u200b\u200bof the enclave.
Proceedings of excavation took place in 2002 and subsequent consolidation of the building have recovered part of the unique monument and document the various construction phases.
Thus, we managed to pull the original levels of the den in the discovery of a water supply well, the glacis and covered way, the access bridge to the fortress and the whole plant of the defenses of Portugal and San Amaro. Strong had also other bastions of Santa Engracia, and Peñas Coronas.
The fort of San Carlos is considered one of the few preserved examples of military facilities and involved in the war events unbind with Portugal.
The building, a rectangular with turrets, is a singular example of fortification made between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries related to the defensive forts that were built in the border hispanolusa.
The documents collected by historians show that was Philip IV, who decided in mid-seventeenth century to build a series of forts along the border of Portugal. And are those chronicles of the time which tell how they tried to hold in the province of Zamora the Portuguese invasion "by touring weapons and artillery fortifications in terms of Carbajales, Torregamones Alcañices and trimmed with fixed third of 800 men that name organized and paid the city. Also fortified the Puebla de Sanabria. " In these circumstances arose Carbajales Military Fort, around the old church-fortress of the Templars.
Carbajales The strong, as was the case with other defensive constructions, played a prominent role during the border wars, but played a key role in the War of Independence. The defense installations remained more or less steady until the late nineteenth century, while hosting a small detachment of soldiers. When the soldiers leave, the fort was looted and some others, taking it up the stones. The result of the abandonment and the constant removal of stones left the building in ruins.
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