{"id":56317,"date":"2024-06-23T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56317"},"modified":"2025-06-23T00:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:04:17","slug":"the-ruins-of-the-once-powerful-f-2-coastal-artillery-battery-at-favarich-menorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/23\/the-ruins-of-the-once-powerful-f-2-coastal-artillery-battery-at-favarich-menorca\/","title":{"rendered":"The ruins of the once powerful F-2 coastal artillery battery at Favarich, Menorca"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we saw here<\/a> the strategic importance of the Spanish island of Menorca and the turbulent past it experienced because of it.<\/p>\n

The formidable Fortress of La Mola, in Menorca, and its enormous Vickers guns<\/a><\/rel>
\nFort Soledad: one of the most remote military positions that Spain had<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

This time we have to focus again on that island regarding a new video from the always excellent YouTube channel Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (to which you I recommend that you subscribe and share its contents). A few days ago that channel showed us the formidable La Mola Fortress<\/a>, which protected the port of Mah\u00f3n<\/strong> and which today, at least in its oldest part, is quite well preserved, in addition to preserve their guns. Now we will see the opposite example: the Favarich F-2 Battery<\/strong> (or Favaritx, in Catalan), in the northeast of the island.<\/p>\n

The construction of the Favarich Battery was part of the 1926 artillery plan<\/strong>, designed during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930). For this battery, two large 381\/45 mm Vickers guns were purchased<\/strong>, identical to those we saw a few days ago in the Punta de Afuera Battery. According to El Viajero Hist\u00f3rico<\/a>, these two large guns were placed in the Favarich battery between 1933 and 1935. The battery was also equipped in 1932 with four 105\/43.5 mm Vickers anti-aircraft guns, and in 1933 with four Vickers guns 15.24 cm.<\/strong> Thus, it was a fortified position with exceptional firepower.<\/p>\n

Between 1942 and 1943, Favarich's two large 38.1 cm Vickers were sent to<\/strong> the Paloma Alta Battery, in Tarifa (C\u00e1diz)<\/a> . The anti-aircraft battery remained until 1965, according<\/a> to the Facebook page of the Cartagena Coastal and Anti-Aircraft Batteries, while the 15.24 cm Vickers guns were preserved until the decade 1990<\/strong>, when they were scrapped. Today the battery is completely dismantled and in a sad state of abandonment (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n