Castell de sa Punta de n’Amer - Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Mallorca, España
N 39° 34.793 E 003° 23.772
31S E 534025 N 4381204
17th century fortified tower on the Punta de n'Amer peninsula
Waymark Code: WMXKVD
Location: Islas Baleares, Spain
Date Posted: 01/26/2018
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Es Castell de sa Punta de n'Amer ("The Castle of Punta de n'Amer", also known as Es Castell or Castell de n'Amer) is a 17th century fortified tower on the east coast of the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca. It is located on the peninsula Punta de n'Amer in the municipality of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar.
Es Castell is located at an altitude of 35 meters above sea level. It consists of ashlars of the typical Mallorcan Marès rock that was mined on Punta de n'Amer, and is a mixture of cubic turret and a rectangular pyramid. Located in the dunes, it was fully focused on the gun battle. Through a wooden parapet surrounding the interior, one reaches the mechanism of the drawbridge and the four loopholes on the respective sides. In the ditch that surrounds the fortification, there are a kind of cistern and a storage bunker.
Already in 1585, in the context of the constant attacks and raids of pirates and North African pirates on Majorca's shores (15th to 18th century) for the first time by the viceroy Lluis Vich in a general inspection, the need for the establishment of a defense tower on Punta de n ' Amer justified. After another big attack in 1611 decided the council of the city Manacor, to whose area the peninsula belonged at that time, 1617 the building of the tower, which could be realized however at first for cost reasons not. It was not until 1693 that the construction of the Castell was started, after the captain of Muro (Capità de Muro) was captured on 4 September 1688 in one of these attacks on the island next to some fishermen and the General Council of Mallorca then the support of the construction agreed.
Source: Wikipedia (translated)
Site Description: Castle
Date of Pirate Activity (Estimated): 16th and 17th century
Reference Web-link or Book Title: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell_de_sa_Punta_de_n%E2%80%99Amer
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In the 16th and 17th century the island of Mallorca was under regular attack of pirates.
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