Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage

<p>Among all the Spanish regions, the province of Granada stands out for the large number of isolated towers of which there are still remains. More than 150 are of medieval origin and preserved to a greater or lesser degree. This is due to the fact that Granada was the core of the Nasrid kingd...

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Main Authors: Luis José García-Pulido, Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo
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Published: University of L'Aquila 2023-10-01
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description <p>Among all the Spanish regions, the province of Granada stands out for the large number of isolated towers of which there are still remains. More than 150 are of medieval origin and preserved to a greater or lesser degree. This is due to the fact that Granada was the core of the Nasrid kingdom, the last surviving Andalusian territory in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. It had more than 400 km of land border with the kingdom of Castile through the Penibaetic System and another 400 km of Mediterranean coastline. This kingdom, whose centre of power was the Alhambra in Granada, came to occupy approximately 2,949,373 ha after the Pact of Jaén, the agreement signed in 1246 between Ferdinand III of Castile and the first Nasrid king, Muḥammad I ibn Nasr, which established the border between the two kingdoms. The kingdom of Granada was maintained with few modifications over the next two and a half centuries, until the War of Granada, which caused it to collapse between 1482 and 1491. Many of these towers were reused, remade or built in the Nasrid period, but, after the Christian process of conquest, many of the towers in the interior were rendered unusable or totally or partially destroyed. This work develops the methodology of the workflow that has been followed to detect the location of many other nodes of this dense network based on the analysis of toponymy. The historical accounts show that there were many more watchtowers to survey this kingdom than the known ones.</p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.30.2023.19</p>
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spelling doaj-art-b8cd77a6bc404bb4bbf7635c330f6f6e2025-08-20T04:02:26ZengUniversity of L'AquilaDisegnare con1828-59612023-10-011630119449Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritageLuis José García-Pulido0Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo1School of Arabic Studies (Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA), CSIC)University of Malaga<p>Among all the Spanish regions, the province of Granada stands out for the large number of isolated towers of which there are still remains. More than 150 are of medieval origin and preserved to a greater or lesser degree. This is due to the fact that Granada was the core of the Nasrid kingdom, the last surviving Andalusian territory in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. It had more than 400 km of land border with the kingdom of Castile through the Penibaetic System and another 400 km of Mediterranean coastline. This kingdom, whose centre of power was the Alhambra in Granada, came to occupy approximately 2,949,373 ha after the Pact of Jaén, the agreement signed in 1246 between Ferdinand III of Castile and the first Nasrid king, Muḥammad I ibn Nasr, which established the border between the two kingdoms. The kingdom of Granada was maintained with few modifications over the next two and a half centuries, until the War of Granada, which caused it to collapse between 1482 and 1491. Many of these towers were reused, remade or built in the Nasrid period, but, after the Christian process of conquest, many of the towers in the interior were rendered unusable or totally or partially destroyed. This work develops the methodology of the workflow that has been followed to detect the location of many other nodes of this dense network based on the analysis of toponymy. The historical accounts show that there were many more watchtowers to survey this kingdom than the known ones.</p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.30.2023.19</p>https://disegnarecon.univaq.it/ojs/index.php/disegnarecon/article/view/1150defensive towerstoponymical analysis, photogrammetric acquisition proceduresuas applications in different environmentsenvironmental conservation.
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Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
Disegnare con
defensive towers
toponymical analysis, photogrammetric acquisition procedures
uas applications in different environments
environmental conservation.
title Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
title_full Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
title_fullStr Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
title_full_unstemmed Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
title_short Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
title_sort disappeared medieval watchtowers in granada spain workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage
topic defensive towers
toponymical analysis, photogrammetric acquisition procedures
uas applications in different environments
environmental conservation.
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