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Monuments
Monuments in Peñiscola
Though the Castle Templar constitutes, so much for suprivilegiado emplacement as for his architectural characteristics and his history, the most relevant of this " City in the Sea " (declared Historical - artistic Set in 1972); in Peñíscola there are situated other many artistic, historical and ethnological elements that will delight the visitor. Haughty they are the walls that it ordered Philip II raised and that constitute a clear manifestation of the big knowledge and polished technical that as for fortifications had the most important military architect - engineer of the epoch, the Italian Juan Bautista Antonelli, who was the one who designed them, being constructed between 1576 and 1578. The Portal Fosc, called likewise of Philip II, is one of the three.
The walls
Haughty they are the walls that it ordered Philip II raised and that constitute a clear manifestation of the big knowledge and polished technical that as for fortifications had the most important military architect - engineer of the epoch, the Italian Juan Bautista Antonelli, who was the one who designed them, being constructed between 1576 and 1578. The Portal Fosc, called likewise of Philip II, is one of the three.
Portal of San Pere
Grand it is the Portal of Sant Pere or of the Pope Moon, in whose central part shows the heraldry in stone of Pedro of Moon. It was the access to the strength from the sea, when the waters were coming at the foot of the wall and the boats were running aground in the same ramp at the foot of this portal. It ordered it the Pope constructed Moon in 1414.
More places of interest
Other places of historical - artistic interest of obliged visit are:
- The Parochial Temple of the Virgin of the Help, with tracería Gothic of the 15th century partly of her and architectural elements (brackets esculturadas) and door of Romanesque tradition.
- Déu d'Ermitana's Ermitorio de la Mare, close to the castle in the one that stays the image of the mistress of the city.
- The Park of Artillery, zone of bunkers and polvorines surrounded with palms and gardens.
- El Bufador, which is a large gap between the rocks through which the sea "breathes" on days of storms.
