Castle of Lorca

Castle of Lorca in Lorca, Murcia, Spain, is a fortress of medieval starting place constructed among the 9^th and 15^th centuries. It consists of a chain of protective structures that, during the Middle Ages, made the town and the citadel an impregnable point within the southeast a part of the Iberian Peninsula. Lorca Castle was a key strategic factor of rivalry among Christians and Muslims at some stage in the Reconquista. It is indexed as a Site of Cultural Interest. It is 640 m lengthy and 120 m wide, and one of the largest castles in Spain.

Archaeological excavations have revealed that the website of the citadel has been inhabited seeing that Neolithic times. There have been archaeological excavations conducted between 1999 and 2011, along side other excavations carried out within the centre of the city of Lorca. The excavations found out the life of an Argaric town that prolonged from the castle to the real web page of the current city. The excavations discovered funerary web sites, houses, and a wall.It has no longer been determined exactly whilst a fort or fort was first built at the hill.

The first written documentation regarding a fort at Lorca is of Muslim origin, which in the 9th century, suggests that the city of Lurqa become an crucial metropolis inside the vicinity ruled by means of Theudimer Tudmir, who ruled seven cities in southeastern Spain, cited within the Treaty of Orihuela that become preserved by using the Andalusian historian Ibn Adari within the 13^th century Orihuela, Valentila in all likelihood an equal for Valencia, Alicante, Mula, Bigastro, Eyya and Lorca.