Restoration of the stone tapia of hsin al-Qala (Castell d’Alcalà de Gallinera), Alicante, Spain

The methodology applied shares a series of principles and criteria based on the international charters for the restoration of monuments. Architecture as a document of material culture requires respect not only towards its space, form and composition, but also towards methods of construction and materials. We should not forget, as Brandi (1988) states, that “only the materiality of artwork is restored”.