After many years’ work due, above all, to a long bureaucratic process as the permits depended on other administrations such as the Andalusian Regional Government or the Central Government itself through the Ministry for Culture, we can finally see the restored Calaburras watchtower today. A project that adds value to the historical and cultural heritage of the town. On the coast of Mijas, we are still lucky enough to be able to trace the defensive line formed by the watchtowers of Calaburras, Torrenueva and Calahonda, which have been standing for centuries.
Two of these buildings, Torrenueva and Calaburras, are once again displaying all their splendour and standing safely, thanks to a process of comprehensive rehabilitation and restoration. “The two towers were in a very advanced state of deterioration, due to the neglect in their maintenance over the last few decades. In these four years the Town Hall has tried to make an effort to recover our historic heritage, we achieved it with the restoration of La Puente, we are achieving it with the enhancement of all those historical and archaeological resources that we are finding at the Finca de Acebedo and now we are doing it with the restoration of these watchtowers”, said mayor, Josele González (PSOE), during a visit on Monday to the Calaburras tower, together with the councillor for Historical Heritage, Laura Moreno (PSOE), and the head of the department, Juan José de la Rubia. “It is very important to conserve our historical heritage.
We originally had four towers when they were built, of which only three remain: Torreblanca (Fuengirola), which was then part of Mijas, and later the battery tower of La Cala was built, which is the most recent one. Right now we have four towers including that one (Torreón de La Cala, Torrenueva, Calahonda and Calaburras), one is privately owned (Calahonda) and the rest are municipal”, explained De la Rubia. This tower was already subject to an emergency intervention more than a decade ago, and now it has undergone a complete refurbishment and restoration.
The work consisted of removing the base structure, which was badly damaged, as well as repairing the walls of the tower and consolidating the framework. “It has been more than 10 years since any work had been carried out on the watchtowers, and this has been covered with a grant from the Ministry for Mobility, Transport and the Urban Agenda and also from the Ministry for Culture with the 1.5% cultural incentive. I think it is very important that we can access each of the subsidies related to heritage and that, in this way, we value and put on the map the various assets of cultural interest in the municipality”, said Moreno. “We are very happy with the results, the restoration has been done in a way that is not very aggressive, we have also tried to enhance the towers with night illumination. From here I invite the neighbours to know a little more about these watchtowers”, added the mayor of Mijas.
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