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Within the context of this war, the publication also contains cartographic documents referring to other important Mediterranean ports relatively close to Catalonia: Valencia (60, 61), Peñíscola (62) and Alcudia (79) –in the peninsula– and Majorca (77, 78) and Fornell (80, 81) on the Balearic coast. All of them, without exception, served a maritime area of enormous military importance and were used as bases to stamp out the Catalan revolt and safeguard access to Italy. These ports provided logistic support, transferring infantry soldiers and war supplies for the Spanish army to the seas of Catalonia.

- The Portuguese War of Restoration

The Portuguese War of Restoration (1640-1668) caused by the Bragança rebellion, explains nearly fifty plans referring to Castilian and Portuguese towns, most of them very close to the border. For twenty years, the Portuguese war was paid insufficient attention by the Spanish monarchy, which was more centred on the fronts opened in the peninsula and certain other parts of its empire; indeed, there were no major battles other than Montijo (1644) (50).

Most of the graphic documentation relating to the conflict comprises drawings of military positions in Extremadura, Spain, and the Portuguese sites of Alentejo and Beira Baixa, its principal scenarios. They are represented by 28 plans of the three different areas involved in the war. The first corresponds to plans of towns and villages in southern Extremadura (32, 46, 47, 33, 48 and 49) where the military operations were initially centred. The area, however, that marked the pace of this