Among the unstable moraine slopes and the plains of the Guadiana River nearby is Olivenza, a city locked in the belt of its Vauban wall, exceeded only recently with horizontal, anarchic, modern growth. The project is located among watchtowers, the Alor mountains, the San Jorge and San Benito de la Contienda towers, and the Cubo del Castillo de Olivenza tower. In the development process of the project, the minimal plot is gradually surrounded by an ever-increasing magma of low-density dwellings…
The Alor mountains, on the southwest of the Iberian peninsula, are a volcanic formation of dark stone, slate schist, granitic batholiths, and the local, hard metamorphic rock known as “burnt marble”.
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