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The action has been made for the record the location of the fortress for future passers-by, because it was entirely destroyed in the last years of the last century by an aggressive labeling done at the place where he sat.
The milestone of stone and tile cartel have been placed on the only preserved remains of the tower, displaced a few meters from its original site, which consist of a square foundation of approximately 1.20 meters wide by 0.60 meters. The tower was the only fortress belonging to the Knights Ricote that lasted over time beyond the Middle Ages, up to the confiscation of the nineteenth century.
Despite its survival until as late, today there is practically no trace of it.
That is why the Cultural Association "The Carrahila" has sought to recover the memory of what should never be lost, marking the location of this missing Cultural Property (No inv.: 41014) belonging to the Municipality of Ulea, which was In the past, a major source of income for the parcel santiaguista Ricote thanks to the recovery of duty on the link of the two main roads passing along the Valle de Ricote, the Camino Real to Toledo and Murcia route headed for the Highlands and Valencia land.
La Torre del Puerto de la Losilla in History
(Information taken from the book of Jesus Joaquin Lopez Moreno
Ricote Valley through their strengths, Madrid, 2008, 75 and 76)
The first documentation referred to the existence of the tower dates from the Losilla 1421, when John II ordered that "the commander of Ricote take Losylla tower saved Christian and non moro."
The parcel was used by Ricote santiaguista for monitoring the path and collect the fee for each person, animal or goods for right of way.
Its location on the hill of La Losilla answers at this point to Toledo route linking the east with the road that passed through the lands of the Altiplano and Valencia (now CN-344).
Thus, the tower was located in a strategic position to control this two-way communication and trade.
Likewise, the tariff charged portazguero the passing of transhumant cattle that came and started to land Cuenca.
We talked about the important Cañada Real de La Mancha Murcia or Los cabañil.
As an example of this, in the tariff of 1507 specifies that "each cattle herd through the port and clears have to pay and goat offal, which are three real."
We can not yet prove a tower of Islamic history, although that place names can be seen that there was a pitch control for the Andalusian era.
With the way "the Losiela Ruelda" and "the Losiella Ruebda" appears in the promise and Sancho IV final declaration to the Order of Santiago in 1281 and 1285, respectively.
Regarding the term "ruelda" or "ruebda" Torres Fontes says that is a word of origin or Muslim background alludes to the groups of horsemen who defended and guarded the border.
We think that given in Andalusian and Christian era was not only the continuity of Roman customs system ("portorium") used by the state and placed in some major communications nodes.
On the toponym "Losi", saying that many homonyms are documented in the Iberian Peninsula, indicating the course of a Roman road and the type of flooring used in building it, as is evident in the remains found by the Cultural Association "The Carrahila "in the Gorge Jumper, at the port in March 2006.
We met another of the various examples of place names used by the Mozarabic valricotí, rooted Celtic lausi ("slab") survived the Arabization.
Because of the unstable second half of the fifteenth century would carry out the aforementioned destruction of the tower in 1421, then in 1507 they were building a new one next to the then existing sale of the Losi.
The project appears in santiaguista visit this year, finding in the document describing the new strength as we made it known Torres Fontes and Peter Lillo we wrote about it:
The tower was square of 6 meters wide and 11.20 meters at its highest.
It consisted of a ground floor, two floors and roof battlements.
The access door was lifting, located on the first floor to 2.40 meters above the ground and in communication with the upper house of the sale of The Losilla which was about 1.5 meters apart.
On the other hand, the ground floor had three embrasures on each side and a quarter of the opening of the tower was occupied by the staircase of work conveyed by this dependence on two floors and the roof.
At the top is a watchtower was perpendicular to the door of the tower, with a hole in the ground for monitoring access.
The construction of the parapet with battlements dates between 1511 and 1515.
On the facade of the tower is documented the coat of arms of the Order of Santiago.
As was said, the tower was the only stronghold of the Knights Ricote that extended beyond the Middle Ages, up to the confiscation of the nineteenth century.
Despite its continued until as late today there is virtually no evidence of it.
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Source: Asociación Cultural "La Carrahila"
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