Sunday, October 10, 2010

The castle of San Juan de las Aguilas

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The actual castle was built in 1756. Aguilas is situated on the south-east coast of Murcia region. The history of the town is closely connected to the castle from the point that the new town was founded when the fortress was built in the muddle of the eighteenth century.

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The restoration of the castle has recently been completed. On the crest of the hill, where you find the actual castle, on the Islamic ruins of a Hisn, a tower with a hexagonal base which was built in the 16th Century.

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