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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, today, along with the mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, and the director of museums in Caravaca Jubilee Indalecio Well, the door found in the access to the castle Caravaca de la Cruz, entered the fortress where pilgrims and prominent personalities who visited the site since the Middle Ages until the seventeenth century.

Ujaldón, which was also accompanied by the architect works director, Juan Francisco Navarro, and the archaeologist in charge of conducting the work, Silvia Martinez, said the findings "have saved us about four meters in elevation of the tower were buried and the door that was accessed from the Middle Ages. "

Thus, "not only recover a piece of our history, but know better the structure of the castle and all access to the sanctuary will become more beautiful."

Also reported that in the coming weeks, archaeologists continue to work to consolidate field and study of the remains.

Among the remains found highlights the emergence of sections of the ancient castle walls, comprising a wall canvas walls, the medieval period.

Most noteworthy are the monumental door which gave access to the castle of Caravaca de la Cruz, which requires us to rethink the chronology of current cover and review all the recent scientific literature on the structure and organization of the castle until well into the eighteenth century.

The door that was found is plotted in the central area of the ground floor of the tower.

Its basic structure consists of a narrow traffic of 2.50 meters wide and probably rectangular, arranged transversely to the axis of the tower, while its sides are occupied by bodies apparently runs solid or constructed of mud blocks of land .

The entrance is covered by a barrel vault in masonry, which further accentuates the sensation of elongated nave and aisle.

Under the eastern end of the vault to the inside of the castle, lies the inner cover formed by an arch of stone voussoirs light yellow, very well preserved.

Yet found the opposite arc of the western side, corresponding to the outer cover.

Source: CARM