Spain - Romanesque Cultural Enclave in the North of Castile-Leon and the South of Cantabria

The fortresses admitted to the offer are west of Salamanca, very close to the Spanish-Portuguese border. The fortresses bastioned on the Spanish-Portuguese border, from the end of the XVI and the XVII centuries at the end of the XVIII century, were characterized by the bellicose conflicts that lead to the secession of the Kingdom of Portugal. We are characterized by the integration of the elements which give new answer to the defensive necessities imposed by the introduction of the artillery. Thus the bastioned fortresses on the Spanish-Portuguese border are outstanding examples of the different types of defensive constructions, that of the civil city as in Ciudad Rodrigo, that of the military fortress such as the Fort de la Concepcion and in the end, that of the reuse and updating of the medieval defensive types that exist on the territory, as in San Felices de los Gallegos.