Santa Bárbara Castle
The Castillo de Santa Bárbara is a landmark of the city of Alicante.
On the 166 -meter high mountain Benacanti towers over the city one of the geographically largest castles in Europe. The importance of this castle can be seen from the local archaeological finds; Remains from the Bronze Age, traces of the Iberians, the Romans and the Moors, on their knowledge of the strategic location of the mountain in the construction of the castle in the 9th century is due, which is divided into three different parts.
The highest and oldest part of the castle bears the name La Torreta and was the site of the Moorish Alcázar. The -13th century to the 11th intermediate part is Baluarte de los Ingleses, the bulwark of the English, called the third and youngest part of the 18th century is called Revellín del Bon Repos.
The cartographer al - Idrisi described the location of the castle on the mountain ' Banu - lQatil what probably is a toponym for pinna ( Arabic for " on top " ) and laqanti, adjective form of Laqant, the Arabic name for Alicante.
Origin of the name
As a reminder that the castle on December 4, 1248, the day of St.. Barbara was liberated by Alfonso X of Castile from the Moorish occupation was given the name of St. castle. Barbara.
Chronology
Access
- Access is the elevator, the one who created inside the mountain Benacanti and can be reached via a 200 m long tunnel from Avenida de Jovellanos, opposite Postiguet beach.
- In addition, a road ( el Sabio Alfonso Avda. ) leads on the back of the mountain to a free car park right in the lower part of the castle, Revellín del Bon Repos.
From the Santa Barbara castle down to the old town runs the Park La Ereta.