Followng the walls, Almazan, Soria, Castille and Leon, Spain

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Followng the walls, Almazan, Soria, Castille and Leon, Spain
Followng the walls, Almazan, Soria, Castille and Leon, Spain

Little set of photos taken from the beautiful walkway at the foot of the walls of Almazan, and above the River Duero.

The walls of Almazán are about ten meters high, because the steep slope of the terrain redoubles their strength. The walkway is protected by a wall with battlements and merlons, where loopholes open.

Its construction follows large polygonal panels with breaks and orientation variations. It has no towers, except those that span the doors and the nuns' roll, which more than a tower is a round buttress that protects a 90-degree angle in the wall, crowned by a festoon of projecting machicolations, joined by arches, without doubt added in the 14th century.

Of the seven doors that the enclosure originally had, three and two gateways are preserved. The Market Gate located to the south, the Herreros Gate facing southeast and the Villa Gate located near the square. All three are from the same construction stage and have the same configuration: two strong towers or cubes between which open pointed arches with a hidden machicolation, and an arch with support for a lifting portcullis. The cubes of the Market door are rectangular, while those of the other two are round. The three are made of rough and strong ashlars. In the 20th century, the Berlanga gate, with similar characteristics to the existing ones, was demolished. The clock tower was added to the Puerta de la Villa in 1886.

Some sections of the Arab wall are preserved in the section that goes from the Nuns' scroll to the Market Gate and some sections of the Romanesque wall built by Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. There remains a restored tower with careful machicolations which they call the nuns' roll, the stretchg on the side of the river in which the church of San Miguel and the Altamira palace are embedded, some sections from the Puerta de la Villa to the church of Santa María, where the walkway can be seen in the sections that do not have attached buildings.

Two minor doorwys also remain: the San Miguel one and the Santa María one, next to the churches of the same names. They are simple openings in the wall formed internally and externally by semicircular arches, and barrel vaults on the interior. Near the church of San Vicente there was another gate that was demolished in 1889. In the most vulnerable parts there was also a moat of which nothing remains except the name of a street (de la Cava).
Construction materials
The construction technique is simple, with large stone blocks barely worked and placed in horizontal rows, a formwork filled with pebbles wrapped in abundant lime mortar is built. The predominant thickness is 2.5 meters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz%C3%A1n

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Taken on: March 16, 2024
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