{"id":5120,"date":"2013-07-21T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.menorcadiferente.com\/en\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:33:40","slug":"ciutadella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menorcadiferente.com\/en\/ciutadella\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciutadella"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ciutadella<\/a>
Ciutadella Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ciutadella<\/strong> is for me the most beautiful city of the island<\/strong>. If you visit Menorca, it would be a mistake to leave without visiting what was once the administrative center of the island, whose name comes from Latin (Ciutadella is short for city).<\/p>\n

It is noticeable that Ciutadella was for many years the capital of Menorca. The whole city has buildings of historical and cultural interest in a very good state of preservation<\/strong>, and thanks to this in 1964 the city was declared a Spanish historical-artistic site. Despite the good condition of the buildings it should be noted that the city was destroyed in 1558<\/strong> during a Turkish sack (that year is remembered as Any de sa Desgr\u00e0cia<\/a>), so it had to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

The noble families built their palaces in Ciutadella during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries<\/strong>, and some of them are still preserved, such as those of the Saura family, the Olives family (today Olivar) or Martorell (today Salord).<\/p>\n

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