Santa Barbara Castle

Santa Barbara Castle is a fortification inside the center of Alicante, Spain. It stands on Mount Benacantil 166 m Bronze Age, Iberian, and Roman artifacts had been determined on the slopes of the mountain, however the origins of the castle date to the 9th century at the time of Muslim manage of the Iberian Peninsula, from 711 until 1296. The Arab medieval geographer Al-Idrisi calls this mountain Banu-lQatil, and the toponym may derive from the phrases pinna Arabic for "top and laqanti, adjectival form of Laqant, the Arabic name for Alicante. On 4 December 1248, the citadel become captured by means of Castilian forces led through Alfonso of Castile.

It turned into named after Saint Barbara, on whose feast day the citadel turned into recaptured from the Arabs. It changed into conquered by using the Aragonese in 1296 for the duration of the reign of James II of Aragon, who ordered its reconstruction. Peter IV of Aragon, Charles I of Spain and Philip II of Spain could oversee in addition reconstructions. Castle of Santa Barbara within the 19th century. The castle turned into bombarded in 1691 by way of a French squadron. During the War of the Spanish Succession, it turned into held via the English for three years. In 1873, it became bombarded,