{"id":3673,"date":"2018-03-06T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:08:41","slug":"torres-de-guaita-y-castillos-en-el-litoral-del-maresme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/torres-de-guaita-y-castillos-en-el-litoral-del-maresme\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Guaita&#8221; Towers and Castles in the Maresme Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;Guaita&#8221; Towers are architectural constructions having military character, the main objective was to provide a high and safe place to make observations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/burriac.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><em>Burriac Castle in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/Cabrera_de_mar\/\"><strong>Cabrera de Mar<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and even the remaining Roman ruins were used. We have more than 50 towers around the Maresme region and many have been restored.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3674\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1-torrec-508x339.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><em>Can Valls Tower in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/St_Vicenc_Montalt\/\"><strong>Sant Vicen\u00e7 de Montalt<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>In this coastal area the towers were built to monitor the attacks of the pirates and the corsairs of the sixteenth century. Currenlty most of them are private properties and can not be traspassed. To warn of danger, smoke, fire, light or sound signals were used. There were so many on the Maresme Coast that the area was known as a tower coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3677\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/castell-vilassar-de-dalt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/castell-vilassar-de-dalt.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/castell-vilassar-de-dalt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/castell-vilassar-de-dalt-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/castell-vilassar-de-dalt-508x338.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/Vilassar_de_Dalt\/\"><em>Vilassar de Dalt<\/em><\/a><em> Castle renovatedand declared a cultural asset. Visiting periods have been established during the year.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Nowadays,\u00a0 those that are still in use are part of the typical catalan countryhouses or other types of buildings that have nothing to do with their old use. Many others remain only ruins or are in poor condition. We also have castles, such as the popular Burriac Castle located in <strong>Cabrera de Mar<\/strong> and being owned by this town since 1931, when visiting it you can see what remains of\u00a0 the chapel of Sant Vicen\u00e7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.costadebarcelonamaresme.cat\/\">\u27a1More info in Welcome to Maresme<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,119,29,1,72],"tags":[9,19,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42566,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/42566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}