| San Juan de Dios Hospital | ||
| and Bastions´ Restoration | ||
| Olivenza - Badajoz - 1982-1984 | ||
| Architecture: | ||
| Ignacio Lliso / Julián Manzano-Monís | ||
| + José María Mateu | ||
| Client: Ministerio de Obras Públicas | ||
| Situación: Location ..... google maps | ||
| Olivenza - Badajoz | ||
| Olivenza was founded by Templar Knights after the conquest of Badajoz by Leon troops of Alfonso IX in 1230. In 1641, during Restoration War between Spain and Portugal, a new wall with nine bastions protruding from the oval layout of the old city is design and built for its protection. The wall was completed with various revellins, ditches and three arch-way gates that access to the site, known as Royal Gates, named as San Francisco, New and Calvary, now preserve only the third one. | ||
| The work of restoration of the walls of the town of Olivenza was focused on the “Bastion of San Juan de Dios” and the “Puerta del Calvario”. Besides this, consolidation works were undertaken in the old seventeenth century“San Juan de Dios Hospital” located in the center of the fortress bastion of the same name. | ||
