TOVIVA PROJECT: DOCUMENTING THE SPANISH DEFENSE TOWERS ALONG THE VALENCIAN COAST WITH A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL METHODOLOGY

Abstract – The Spanish Mediterranean coasts, offers a suggestive sequence of towers, they were built, since the sixteenth century, to protect the territory from pirates. Once defeated the piracy of that time in the “Mare Nostrum”, the coastal towers system lost its defensive function, but remained as a testimony of history. The Toviva project, supported by the Spanish Ministry and developed by a Spanish-Italian team, is aimed to the creation of a virtual network using advanced digital tools, where the towers become components for knowledge dissemination and a link between the cultural heritage of a territory and its history.