El Arrabal Daniya's Medina, known by Arab sources rabad amir, Trapezoidal, occupies a space of 12 hectares southeast of the Medina. It is fenced with a solid wall. He connected with it via a bridge. In one corner of the seafront a tower, possible coracha, señalizaba and controlled the port area. It is called by the historical place names as Torre d'En Carros. Missing nearly a century ago, it is reflected in the historical mapping and photographic records 1870 and 1900 between.
The fortified area of Arrabal has a design and a unitary conception in organization of space. Encuadraríamos it chronologically in the first decades of the eleventh century. That's when the fortification system of the western wall would be built FortiWith a canvas reinforced with towers of semicircular plant.
In the second half of the twelfth century you would be provided a complementary barbacana, reflecting new concepts in fortification and defense.
The text of Al-Idrisi, geographer of the twelfth century, among the traits that defined this thriving port city andalusí refers to them: "Denia is a city located on the seashore, very populous and beautiful. Arrabal has a large and very strong walls, which on the east, are built within the same sea, with great art and wisdom [sic]. It has an extremely inaccessible fortress which dominates the countryside, fully cultivated and planted fig trees and vines particular.
Text: Josep A. Gisbert Santonja. Sant Lluch, 2008.
Pictures: Josep A. Gisbert Santonja
"Separated from the city to the south was his Arrabal murado and also with towers at intervals as wall paintings of that. Its ruins are so obvious that we discover whole perimeter.
Leaving the space we have said from the ancient city walls and towers were by the sea on an extent of five hundred meters up the tower in Carroz.
After a thirty-meter space continued in the same direction that wall, but no walking space tower three hundred seventy meters.
These stretches of wall running from north to south have other perpendicular from east to west three hundred meters in both extremes, coming to join another wall equal and parallel to that of the sea ".
Roc Chabas, History of the City of Dénia. Dénia, 1874.
