La Torre de Comares en peligro de ruina. Afecciones de la estructura más significativa de la Alhambra en los siglos XVI y XVII

  1. Virginie Claude Brazille Naulet
  2. Antonio Orihuela Uzal 1
  3. Luis José García-Pulido 2
  1. 1 Escuela de Estudios Árabes - CSIC
  2. 2 Escuela de Estudios Árabes - CSIC / Universidad de Málaga
Libro:
FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean, vol. X
  1. Navarro Palazón, Julio (coord.)
  2. García Pulido, Luis José (coord.)

Editorial: edUPV, Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València ; Universitat Politècnica de València

ISBN: 978-84-9048-862-1

Año de publicación: 2020

Páginas: 21-28

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

Resumen

This article develops a research on the outside layout of the Tower of Comares in the Alhambra (Granada), studying its transformations. It is focused on the interventions that took place at the most critical moment in its history. Between the last decades of the sixteenth century and the first ones of the seventeenth century, its general state of abandonment, the explosion of a nearby powder mill and the bad restauration practices applied in some cases, brought it to its structural limits, threatening its ruin. This process could fortunately be reversed after several technical reports on its injuries and actual conservation estate. If neglected, it would have led to the collapse of this paradigmatic example of the Nasrid regal defensive architecture.