Resumen de Santa Magdalena: una villa de nueva planta para el sistema defensivode la Horta d’Alacant (Alacant, España)
Màrius Bevià i García, Juan Antonio Mira Rico, Jaime Manuel Giner Martínez
In the last decade of the 16th century, Pere Franquesa i Esteve bought some lands in the areas of El Palamó and Orgègia to build a new town in the future county of Villafranqueza. He engaged the engineer Cristóbal Garavelli Antonelli for this settlement, who made various proposals for the Santa Magdalena site in 1590 according to his orders. In this sense, the project shows a rectangular trace with two perpendicular axes that form a quadrangular space. The Gothic parochial church and the lord’s house with a tower are located there. The complex is surrounded by a wall with four small bastions at its corners and two at the ends of the minor axis. It would be a new defensive system of the Horta d’Alacant together with Verónica Tower.
