PEREZ GIL The medieval tower that crowns the mountain range of La Torreta of Elda returns  dominating loom over the valley of the Vinalopó, recovering the ancient manor taken up by the passage of centuries and the apathy of the administration. It suffers a significant deterioration which had advanced in a rush in the last two decades making the strategic tower in a historical well on the way to be endangered. However it was a the parade of moors in Elda, Las Huestes del Cadi to be exact, which twelve years ago up the challenge of recovering it, and it was marked and thereby keep alive the emblem that its partners are embroidered on the chest of their festive costumes . The restoration has not been easy for the company, because of the base of the tower and the rebuilding of its strong walls, moreover, the work that began in October with three months delay, now face the final straight.

The fort, whose recovery in the Ministry of Culture has invested 60,000 euros, were already up to two meters and a half from th the ground and begins to be visible from the road to Sax. But the conclusion of the action being undertaken by the corporation Urbana de Exteriores, which is expected to happen in February, the watchtower regain its former glory with nearly seven meters tall and enable an environment suitable for the guided visits an enclave of luxury overlooking.

But the laudable goal of las Huestes del Cadi has gone through times of serious difficulties propitiated, curiously, governed by government under the same political sign. Precisely, disagreements arose between the city of Elda, with the camper Adela Pedrosa heading, and the Deputation of Alicante and has chaired Ripoll and has the eldense Mari Carmen Jimenez as first vice president that, has prevented an integral and parallel action throughout the environment.

The Provincial Corporation agreement put on the table by the mayor to finance part of the musical adaptation of the site was left unexecuted. In February 2008 this newspaper reported that the government team from Elda had not included any consignment for that purpose in its budget. The Consistory had been committed to provide about 44,000 EUR the same amount announced by the council and whose leaders waited until despair because Adela Pedrosa decided not to sign the agreement. Fortunately political disputes have not prevented the recovery of a listed monument BIC and whose environment is subjected, from May 2008, to special protection at the behest of the Valencian Government.

The Dock Tower was built shortly before the year 1386 and was very important to become a strategic outpost between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile. From its privileged location, allowing communicating with visual signals to the Castles of Villena and Sax to Elda and Elda, became a place of surveillance to prevent the frequent kidnappings of humans, livestock and goods "the Grenadian bandits and thugs of the Kingdom of Murcia ". In 2004 the excavation in an underground tank for storing grain and structure of a cattle shed was found. He also appeared a valuable coin from the Valencia Middle Ages.

Source: Diario Información