17-10-2023, 08:49 PM
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€126,260 to restore the Torre del Tostón in El Cotillo.
The Cabildo has formalized the contract and the works will begin within a maximum period of one month
NEWSROOMFUERTEVENTURA
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura will soon begin the consolidation and restoration works of the Torre del Tostón, located in the town of El Cotillo in the municipality of La Oliva. Once the contract has been formalised, the winning company has one month to start the work that seeks to ensure the good state of conservation of this Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), which is an important tourist attraction for Fuerteventura.
The restoration of the Torre del Tostón is included within the actions contemplated in the Tourism Sustainability Plan in Destination 'Fuerte por Naturaleza', within the extraordinary call for tourism sustainability plans and approved at the end of 2021. This plan is developed thanks to funding from European Next Generation Funds, within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
According to the president of the Cabildo, Lola García, "the objective of the plan is to move towards a tourist destination with an increasingly attractive, intelligent and competitive model, with a significant investment of more than 9.1 million euros".
For her part, the Minister of Tourism, Marlene Figueroa, explains that "the plan is articulated in different axes of intervention, including the improvement of the tourist offer with new facilities and with actions as important as the one that is going to be executed in Torre del Tostón".
In the case of the Torre del Tostón rehabilitation project, the Cabildo de Fuerteventura will be in charge of carrying out the works, at the request of the City Council of La Oliva. The completion of these projects will allow these facilities to be put back into use.
The intervention in this building involves an investment of 126,260 euros, and consists of the restoration and consolidation of the exterior and entrance of the monument, which suffers the incidence of wind erosion and marine saltpeter, as it is on the seafront. In this way, actions will be carried out for the cleaning of walls and relocation of detached stone masonry, with the same original volcanic lava black stone, as well as actions to improve the stability of the structure.
Likewise, the wooden pieces of the drawbridge, entrance door, will be rehabilitated, and metal elements will be repaired and replaced to adapt them to the environment, among other actions.
Torre del Tostón
The construction of the building was commissioned in the eighteenth century. Like the rest of the defensive architecture of the Archipelago, the tower functioned as coastal protection against attacks by Berber pirates from North Africa, French and English, with the aim of defending the port of El Cotillo, which was of great importance as a natural port in the trade of orchilla, barrilla and lime.
The Torre del Tostón is 12 metres in diameter and 7.8 metres high, which translates into about 300 square metres of façade area, with an access staircase of about 20 square metres. The main entrance consists of a stone staircase by means of a wooden drawbridge. The entire structure is built with black volcanic stone masonry from a quarry near the hermitage of El Cotillo.
The interior is distributed on the first floor where the rooms that housed the soldiers were located, the ground floor where gunpowder was stored and a roof where three cannons were installed to protect the coast, as well as a cistern.
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€126,260 to restore the Torre del Tostón in El Cotillo.
The Cabildo has formalized the contract and the works will begin within a maximum period of one month
NEWSROOMFUERTEVENTURA
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura will soon begin the consolidation and restoration works of the Torre del Tostón, located in the town of El Cotillo in the municipality of La Oliva. Once the contract has been formalised, the winning company has one month to start the work that seeks to ensure the good state of conservation of this Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), which is an important tourist attraction for Fuerteventura.
The restoration of the Torre del Tostón is included within the actions contemplated in the Tourism Sustainability Plan in Destination 'Fuerte por Naturaleza', within the extraordinary call for tourism sustainability plans and approved at the end of 2021. This plan is developed thanks to funding from European Next Generation Funds, within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
According to the president of the Cabildo, Lola García, "the objective of the plan is to move towards a tourist destination with an increasingly attractive, intelligent and competitive model, with a significant investment of more than 9.1 million euros".
For her part, the Minister of Tourism, Marlene Figueroa, explains that "the plan is articulated in different axes of intervention, including the improvement of the tourist offer with new facilities and with actions as important as the one that is going to be executed in Torre del Tostón".
In the case of the Torre del Tostón rehabilitation project, the Cabildo de Fuerteventura will be in charge of carrying out the works, at the request of the City Council of La Oliva. The completion of these projects will allow these facilities to be put back into use.
The intervention in this building involves an investment of 126,260 euros, and consists of the restoration and consolidation of the exterior and entrance of the monument, which suffers the incidence of wind erosion and marine saltpeter, as it is on the seafront. In this way, actions will be carried out for the cleaning of walls and relocation of detached stone masonry, with the same original volcanic lava black stone, as well as actions to improve the stability of the structure.
Likewise, the wooden pieces of the drawbridge, entrance door, will be rehabilitated, and metal elements will be repaired and replaced to adapt them to the environment, among other actions.
Torre del Tostón
The construction of the building was commissioned in the eighteenth century. Like the rest of the defensive architecture of the Archipelago, the tower functioned as coastal protection against attacks by Berber pirates from North Africa, French and English, with the aim of defending the port of El Cotillo, which was of great importance as a natural port in the trade of orchilla, barrilla and lime.
The Torre del Tostón is 12 metres in diameter and 7.8 metres high, which translates into about 300 square metres of façade area, with an access staircase of about 20 square metres. The main entrance consists of a stone staircase by means of a wooden drawbridge. The entire structure is built with black volcanic stone masonry from a quarry near the hermitage of El Cotillo.
The interior is distributed on the first floor where the rooms that housed the soldiers were located, the ground floor where gunpowder was stored and a roof where three cannons were installed to protect the coast, as well as a cistern.
link to article for pic