El último baluarte de la ciudadela de valencia. Un símbolo de la dinastía borbónica

Abstract

The Casa de Armas, which occupied the northeast corner of the walled citadel of Valencia, has been, since its inception, one of the most outstanding fortified enclaves in the city. Since t he sixteenth century, various elements have been built around the L'Espero tower to form a space primarily intended to the custody of the weapons of the Generalitat1. In the eighteenth century, with the advent of the Bourbon dynasty, the building suffered a major renovation process, among which the construction of a new bastion in a vertex of the Plaza de Predicadores had a great impact on the external image of the ensemble. The present work analyzes some fundamental aspects that contribute to acquire new knowledge regarding this construction, especially those related to its structure, morphology, materials and its relation to preexisting constructions. The analysis of the data collected has allowed us to include new sources of study such as the planimetric survey of the whole architectural ensemble considering its evolution through different historical stages.