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Fielato Tower
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| SCHEDULE | Exterior monument. |
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Near the Nautical Fishing Center.< /p>
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Currently on the so-called ""Camino Viejo"", a road a disused Roman-era tower located about two kilometers from the historic center of Almería, stands the ""Torre del Fielato"", a stone structure composed of three cylindrical bodies ;ndrics that are decreasing in size and an entrance with a bank inside that served as a post for the collection of fees and taxes > derived from commercial activity in this coastal area. In the past, anyone who wanted to bring goods through this point in Almería had to pay an amount at said tower and today, it has come to us as a memory of other forms of municipal management that were used in the past.
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In the past, the border posts were known as Fielato where public officials were located inside with the objective of controlling the traffic of goods and checking whether the food products that Those who passed through that area complied with the sanitary measures. The term fielato comes from the fielato or scale that was used to weigh the stock before paying the toll rate.
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