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HISTORY
The granadina coast is sprinkled of strength, castles, towers and watchtowers of different times, witnesses of the history of these earth.
Their condition of border zone of the nazarita kingdom of Granada, next to the proximity to North Africa made of these coasts very uncertain places.
As much Muslim in the Average Age, like Christians as of century XVI, they were forced to reinforce the monitoring of the coast, that received constants incursions of privateers, pirates, thieves, who frequently harvested to the local population.
The conquest of Granada by the Christians, 1492, and the defeat of the Turkish square in the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, brought about the increase of the piracy in the coast.
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