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Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta tower. Mostrar todas las entradas

miércoles, 6 de febrero de 2008

Tower of The Iglesuela of the Cid (Maestrazgo, Teruel, España)


This tower, built in the thirteenth century tower is a tribute by the former Templar castle. Its windows geminadas and its pointed arches, Gothic style

domingo, 30 de septiembre de 2007

Castle of Biel, Tower of Biel. Castillo de Biel (Zaragoza, Aragón).


The Castle of Biel in the Cinco Villas (Zaragoza, Aragón) was always a strategically important point given its proximity to the border with Navarre, you command to construct by Sancho the Greater one, its first tenente was Blasco Ariol from 1004 and 1054, already with king Ramiro I. The region of Cinco Villas is one of the more important of all old Kingdom of Aragón.

The castle this formed by the set of the monumental tower and the románica church of San Martin, something subsequent to the tower because it would be of end of century XI, although was reconstructed in the century XVI, and that has the leaned North wall to the imposing tower.

miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2007

Castle of Uncastillo (Zaragoza, Aragón). Castillo de Uncastillo.

Uncastillo has one of the richest monumental sets of all Aragón. Declared Joint Historical Artistic in 1966. The villa has the rest of its important castle, today museum, and two towers fortified in its churches.

viernes, 14 de septiembre de 2007

Walls and Towers of Zaragoza (Aragon) Spain. Murallas y torres de Zaragoza.


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Caesaraugusta, the Roman Zaragoza, was surrounded by a wall with numerous towers, possibly 120. Their walls had a considerable thickness, being the outer part of sillares of alabaster and limestone, and the interior of a mortar of great hardness. The date of construction of the Roman wall is not known with exactitude, but it thinks that the present rest date from centuries II and III d.C. Possibly a primitive wall of the time of Augusto existed, at the moment of the foundation of the city, towards century I a.C., that served as laying of foundations the new wall. It was reaprovechada by Muslim visigodos and, exerting an important defensive function during the Average Age. In century XIV, the wall still turned its mission during the War of both Peters that took place during years 1356 and 1369. As of that moment the expansion of the city made it unnecessary, and as of century XV it went dismantling.