Habsburg and Bourbon Spain
Águilas
Today: Spain
- Years
- 1765–1833
- Role
- Enlightened port founded in 1765
On the headland a watchtower against Barbary pirates was raised in 1579, destroyed in 1643, and its rebuilding was ordered by the king in 1652. Around 1751 a new castle was planned, San Juan de las Águilas, finished in 1756, and in 1765 the present town was designed, with a port for the Guadalentín valley, dependent on Lorca until 1834.
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