Socialist candidate for Mayor of Alicante, Elena Martin, has proposed that the "face of Moro Mount Benacantil and the Castle of Santa Barbara are declared a World Heritage Humanity, in the sense of "place."
In a statement, Martin has indicated that this sense includes the combined works of man and nature in historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological, a condition which in his opinion meet these elements that make up two of the capital tourist stamps .
This finally distributed in different parts of the city tables to collect signatures in support of this declaration, the first of which will be next weekend at Central Market.
"The face of the Moor is a natural sculptural element, unique and singular for what it represents, and has always been respected and valued by the various cultures that settled on the summit", has revealed. For
socialist is also "historical icon" of the city and that face and the castle are in the arms of Alicante and is in perfect condition thanks to its recent restoration.
has reported that, in addition, there is an ancient legend relates the appearance of the face with a suicide of love for a princess who supposedly lived in the fortress.
The religious nature of the Monte Benacantil be sustained "by the existence of a protohistoric sanctuary at its top and a Christian rock religious complex, recently discovered."
Martin has joined in his petition the castle as a defensive "border" since practically the early history, which "was also a place of settlement of all cultures of the Mediterranean and Zayyan residence, one of the last Muslim kings of the peninsula ".
He recalled that was described as "the key to the kingdom" by some Christian kings, and hosted memorable events as the staff of the decision by King Jaume I.
He added that three wells in perfect condition, an example of water culture, and is one of the finest examples of Renaissance fortress in the western Mediterranean.
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