Xàbia asks the Navarro Rubio family for permission to excavate the ermita on the Cabo de San Antonio28/10/2015 English version of an article which appeared in La Marina Plaza Oct 15th 2015
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 The Castell de Forna (Adsubia) is is the best preserved and most accessible of the Marina Alta castles.
The building is quadrangular, with a square tower at each corner, but it is slightly asymmetric with the northeast tower being larger with a water cistern and a room covered by a cross vault. Judging from the remains, this larger tower was originally a military or refuge watchtower (atalaya) during Almohad Islamic times (12th - 13th centuries). The village of Forna was taken by King Jaume I from the Muslims in 1258, but the first record of the castle was not until the middle of the 14th century and its extension and conversion into the feudal residential palace we see today seems to have occurred in the middle of the 15th century when the village was owned by the Cruilles family. The castle was excavated in 1981, revealing ceramics from the 14th to 16th centuries. In 2003 it was extensively restored by the Adsubia/Forna Town Hall with technical assistance from the MARQ. (Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante)Of particular note is a set of late medieval / renaissance graffiti drawings on the wall of a room in the northwest tower. This is one of the best sets of such drawings in Alicante province. Wednesdays for the Curious
Wednesday 21 October at 20;00 - Xàbia Museum Romanization and the Late Roman period in Xàbia A talk by archaeologists Ximo Bolufer and Pasqual Costa - a guided tour of the Roman hall and presentation of restored ceramic pieces from the seventh century BC discovered in excavations in L'Atzúbia (Xàbia) |
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