Pitiusas

From the high Sant Jordi Bastion, the wall, in this stretch exactly marking the west on the compass, runs downhill now to join the northern wall with the Portal Nou Bastion located at the foot of a small hill. A path descends along the wall from which there is a beautiful view of nearby Puig d’es Molins and its numerous crop of windmills and of the faraway hills of Ses Salines. In the mid distance, between Sant Jordi and Portal Nou (literally, “new gateway”) bastions, the wall forms a very obtuse outcropping on which Sant Jaume Bastion rises up. It is similar in construction to Sant Jordi Bastion, supported by a domed base with seven arrow slits and a bartizan (turret) crowned by a small dome.

   

From the Portal Nou Bastion, a tall, perfectly straight wall connects to Sant Joan Bastion, the largest of all the existing ones. It has two obtusely angled outcroppings and two forming right angles, in addition to three long sides with eleven arrow slits and three disassembled canons. There are two bartizans on either corner, and, from the centre of the bastion and along a semi-destroyed wall, a path leads down into the city.

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria. Las Baleares por la palabra y el grabado. Primera parte: Las Antiguas Pitiusas. Ed. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares. Palma de Mallorca. 1982