Walls of Madrigal de las Altas Torres
castle, chateau
837m
Ávila, Castilla y León

It preserves one of the few examples of medieval walls in the Mudejar style in the whole country

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Previous names
Walls of Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Muralla de Madrigal de las Altas Torres
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Description

It preserves one of the few examples of medieval walls in the Mudejar style in the whole country. The parts that can be seen –which mix the Romanesque, primitive Gothic and Mudejar styles– date back to the 13th and 14th centuries, although many of them have been reconstructed. The original premises, in the shape of an irregular oval, had a 2,300 metre perimeter and an internal area of 390,400 square metres, statistics equalling those of the famous walls of Avilla.

Its average thickness of 1.5 metres was reinforced using exterior eaves and a moat. Mud, stone and bricks were the materials used to build it. Today, 23 of the 60 to 80 original towers are preserved –square or pentagonal–, various wall panels and four doors: Arévalo, Medina, Peñaranda and Cantalapiedra. The last is the most interesting: a pointed arch flanked by two separate towers of different heights, the taller pentagonal and the lower square.

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La mayor parte de los tramos y puertas que quedaban han sido restaurados

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