The wall
The wall was the most complex and expensive public construction in the settlement. Besides its role in defence, it also projected an image of the community to the outside.
Spaces inside the site
Exploring the excavated areas: from the fortified walls and gates to the houses and streets.
La Bastida de les Alcusses was a fortified urban centre from where several families controlled the area’s agricultural production and trade. The most important public structure, which could be seen from anywhere in the territory, was the wall with its fortified towers and gates. Inside the walled area, the town was structured in streets and squares around blocks of houses and other public buildings.
The gates
What are the entrances like, and what clues do they reveal to us about how the inhabitants lived?
The towers
Towers are important elements of any fortification, to be able to keep watch over the surrounding area. They would also have helped make the walls even more imposing.
Streets, neighbourhoods and houses
The urban space was organized in a network of streets and alleys, squares, and blocks of buildings distributed in various ways.
What was it like? Virtual reconstructions of the settlement
These are our hypotheses about the appearance of the buildings, neighbourhoods, streets and houses.
