Holly and Lauroid Forests de alta montaña
Unique Landscapes, Natural Park, Forests and Wildlife
Siles
Description
The tower has a height of 21.5 m and is made of masonry with lime mortar. The average diameter is 8.5 m and the thickness of the walls is more than 2.75 m.
Within the Cube we can consider up to four spatial and functional levels: At the lower level or ground floor, we find ourselves in front of a circular floor room of approximately 8 m in diameter with a half-orange vault with a height of approximately 10 m.
Due to this considerable height it could have been divided into several levels with structures and wooden entwels. The site available in these defence towers was so valuable that it took advantage of the smallest space for the storage of food, utensils and the shelter of people that the Order of Santiago kept under its protection.
The intermediate level or first floor is a circular room of smaller size because it contains the staircase access to the roof. It has a vault pointed on nerves where its intermediate cloth is also made of stone.
From the roof, we can see the plain where the Kurah was framed in the time of Al-Ándalus, this allowed the control of the four cardinal points against the fronts of advance.
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