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Ibiza town (Eivissa)

Although called Ibiza in English and Spanish, the official name is the Catalan Eivissa. It is divided into two main parts: the old town, called the Dalt Vila (literally "Upper Town"), located on a little mountain by the sea, and the modern part. The old walls of the town, built in the 16th century to protect it from the attacks of the Turks, took forty years to build. The walled enclosure is in the shape of a heptagon and a defensive bastion juts out at each angle. Today's Dalt Vila quarter inside the walled city on the summit of a rocky promontory and its views of land and sea are the same as they were in the sixteenth century.