Castillo y murallas de Orihuela

Monuments

They constitute as a whole a defensive system of Andalusian origin formed by several enclosures murados to different height. Castle of Orihuela (BIC). Ninth-eighteenth century. It is a work of precalifal origin, which lasts with successive additions until the War of Succession, being destroyed in 1709. In it, several well-differentiated zones are distinguished functionally. The highest area is occupied by the Alcazaba, seat of political and military power, below it a line of towers delimits the albacar, enclosure with livestock functions as well as defensive, another series of towers are located around the seminary, where he was the original population. A whole series of walls and towers link the citadel with the walls of the city that ran along the river. Walls of the city (BIC). XI-XV century. They extend from the Monte de San Miguel to the Segura River. The walls of the city started from the albacar to encompass the original nucleus of the city (current seminar) and its subsequent expansion to the river. Currently there are several unconnected sections of the walls, two towers at the end of Calle Torreta, the Torre de Embergoñes, the Tower of Casa Casinello in Calle Soleres, the stretch preserved in the Museum of the Wall, under the Aulario del Campus of the Salesas of the Miguel Hernández University and several canvases and towers on the Monte de San Miguel, in the vicinity of the Diocesan Seminary. Puerta de la Olma or Crevillente. It is the only preserved remnant of the Cerca del Arrabal de San Juan. Ashlar work Entrance with a half-point arch and on it a guardian angel with a sword, representing the royal arm in the Valencian Cortes, accompanied by the quadribarrado shield, the Oriol Bird (emblem of the city) and an inscription that dates the door in 1558: “En lo ani de nostra redemcio MDLVIII se acaba aquest portal sent ivrats los molt magnifichs senors Melchor Groadellas Ivan Fernandes de Tvesta Frances Almodover Andre Manresa Ivan Miro”.