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The Norfeu Tower is a historic watchtower built in the 16th century to defend against pirate attacks. It stands atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and offers stunning views of the Roses coastline.

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This cave, inhabited in prehistoric times, contains remains that demonstrate its use in the Neolithic or Bronze Age, such as stone tools, pottery fragments, and evidence of fire. Its strategic location, hidden but with good visibility of the surroundings, made it ideal as a refuge or stopover. Today, for cyclists like us, it's an excellent shelter in case of rain or to enjoy breakfast in the shade, thanks to its peaceful and protected location.

The "Pedra de Les Orenetes" (Swallows' Stone) is made up of a large granite block about 8 m long, 3 m wide and 3 m high, which has been heavily eroded. The basal part shows several cavities, one of which is a medium-sized shelter, which is the main area of the paintings. From this concavity, through which the block can be crossed from below, other concavities and eroded points with pictographic representations continue to the right. These correspond to curved, serpentine strokes, points, female figures, cruciform figures, bars, finger marks, anthropomorphic forms, quadrupeds, branch-shaped figures and human representations, as well as remains of pigment that are difficult to interpret. the schematic-semi-schematic to the stylized and naturalistic), chromatic (reddish, reddish-brown, reddish-orange and yellowish-orange) and techniques (fingering, simple stroke and flat ink) as well as a diverse degree of erosion that seems to indicate a process with superimpositions and diverse phases, some of which seem to be related to those of the Cogul shelter.

The Torre de Norfeu is a building in the municipality of Roses (Alt Empordà) protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Located within the small peninsula that forms the Cap de Norfeu, on top of the highest hill of all those that make up the orography of the area, with a great command over the sea. These are the remains of a watchtower located in these contours. Circular in plan, with a slightly sloping profile and a large diameter, the tower is built with stone of various sizes and some ashlars, without being worked, arranged in irregular rows and bound with lime mortar. It currently has an approximate height of about six meters and maintains the hemispherical vault that covered the ground floor. The interior walls still maintain remains of the hydraulic lime layer that coated them and the bottom was built with a fairly well-preserved tile pavement, since the floor was intended to be a rainwater collection cistern. In the center of the vault, the register through which the water was extracted and the first floor was reached is still preserved.[1] Currently, access to the interior of the tower is through a slightly raised chasm, which gives access to the space of the cistern. Large fragments of built walls and scattered rubble, from the demolition of the upper part, are scattered around the construction. Source: https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Norfeu

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