EPILOGUE: THE LOOKOUT TOWER OF CADIZ DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

Established as one of the most characteristic and defi ning features of the cityscape from Cadiz, the observation tower, anchored in a tradition of centuries, will undergo a substantial change with the arrival of the nineteenth century, reaching even to the prohibition itself, which will affect both its use and purpose and structure and formal settings. Ceased to be vigilant and liaison between the merchants’ houses and the ships coming from overseas logical means the new construction process and its adaptation to new needs and circumstances. Some modifi cations these, materials, layout and purposes, that will drive a renewed concept of reason from which there shall arise a new plant and adapted others, already existing. It is, fi rst, make a theoretical reflection on them, which clearly contradicts its own origins and characteristics of masonry towers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and very typical of terminal stages, to differentiate and explain, well, better to spend its evolution after the analysis of concrete towers, both found in the fl at section of the Municipal Archives of Cadiz as other currently tracked by the rooftops of Cadiz.