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Peracense

A seventeen kilometers from Monreal del Campo, Teruel province, not far from the tower Singra, is one of the most spectacular castles of Aragon: Peracense. Interestingly, compared to the popularity of Loarre (it seems that there is no castle in Aragon more than that, however beautiful and well maintained it is), not a fortress too well known, perhaps precisely because it is in Teruel and it is unusual that our land be given much attention to the peculiarities of this province still forgotten. But it is actually a work of engineering that in no way detracts Poliorcetes the most impressive castles, not of our community but all over Spain.

Although human presence in this region dates back to prehistory, the impressive walls and rooms of this castle date from the fourteenth century, when the War of the Two Pedros solar ravaged the Aragonese and siege warfare was at its peak . Built in red stone Roden, perfectly camouflaged with the surroundings and lording the heights of the mountains which rise, Peracense is an engineering feat castellológica whose analysis yields the conclusion that an assault on the walls would be really difficult if not impossible both because a su ordenación y disposición como a la solidez de sus paramentos.

Como es habitual en este tipo de recintos, en Peracense todo está pensado para que cada parte del castillo pueda ser defendida independientemente. El primer aproche a la muralla exterior lo dificulta un camino de acceso difícilmente franqueable a un ejército en disposición de combate, esto es, en formación de muro de escudos para detener los proyectiles disparados desde la posición defensiva, por cuanto la estrechez del paso obligaría a una aproximación en fila de a dos o de tres (a lo sumo), facilitando a los defensores la defensa vertical del primer recinto desde los caminos de ronda.

In the unlikely event that the aproche unsuccessful and the attackers managed to enter the first room-at the expense of losing dozens of soldiers in the attempt, could easily have advanced a troop of them for responding in own access road to the second postern, from whose height could also develop an effective defense vertical, given that access to the second enclosure is also ramping, hampering the progress of extremely faint attackers overwhelmed by fatigue and by the weight of their arms and the resistance encountered in the first assault on the outer wall.

But even in the case of having an attack tenacious, decisive and well coordinated achieved with great effort up until the second glacis, the defenders have had time to establish a last line of defense which, inevitably, he will hit the attackers momentum for good, since the Esplanade offers a perfect square in which no problems have one last defense force.

only if the attacking army was led by Alexander the Great, a Saladin or Alfonso I "the Battler" achieve gain control of the second defensive enclosure, for which one would access the third one down stairs wood, probably removed in time, "one in one (the space is small for an attack on all), pop the gateway to the keep the false-buhedera featuring a vertical as a defense to throw boiling water or oil on the soldiers huddled together at the bottom-gate , climbing up the stairwell of less than one meter wide (an experienced goalkeeper would be enough to stop the advance from the upper yard) and eventually spread through the third and final room where you would find the cream of the defenders, loyal soldiers of the lord of Peracense willing to sell their lives dearly before allowing the final decision on the strength ...

difficult task to take a castle by force. Next August 8 afternoon try to prove it. My

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