Eternal Surveillance: From Optical Telemetry to Microwaves.

 This image captured at the Cenizas Battery is the perfect example of how the past and present coexist in the same geographical space. While the irregular stone structures seek to blend into the mountain, the modern antennas shatter that illusion, connecting us directly to the year 2026.

Among the stone structures that mimic the natural terrain, fully operational antennas emerge. It is the ultimate contrast: a fortress designed for invisibility in 1930, now transformed into a strategic digital communications hub.

Built between 1930 and 1934 as part of Primo de Rivera's Plan*, the foundation work began in 1929, and the pieces were installed in 1934.

*Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) was an authoritarian regime in Spain, initiated by the coup d'état of Miguel Primo de Rivera on September 13, 1923, with the support of Alfonso XIII. It suspended the 1876 Constitution, dissolved the Cortes (Parliament), and created a Military Directorate (1923–1925) and a Civil Directorate (1925–1930). Its objective was to restore order, combat caciquismo (local political bossism), and modernize the country through public works, achieving success in Morocco (Alhucemas, 1925).