ALCAZABA
Built on the upper bound of trujillano Berrocal , on a hill called " Head of Zorro ', the Alcazaba de Trujillo is an Andalusian monument of the Umayyad period , built sometime between the ninth and tenth century.
The walls of masonry cut in large blocks that enclose an inner core of concrete , form a regular enclosure 40 meters towers dotted hand, he traced in all elbows rassasi - unit characteristic measure of the Caliphate of Córdoba. A horseshoe- arched doorway without enjarjar very closed , surrounded by two towers , provides access to the enclosure, contemporary citadels Merida (towards 835 ) and Gormaz (Soria ) .
After the main enclosure , the Albacara a polygonal enclosure built immediately after the fort, to which is added one coracha Almohad stands .
Vintage and Christian are the outer wall with circular towers, the gully ormoat , now silted up , the flanking towers they go through gateways on the west side , and the outer barbican gravitates round the door Albacara . Complex latter time of the Catholic Kings , noteworthy for its small mailbox cover with fire extinguishers and deep pockets ( eighteenth century).
Inside the fort two tanks of uncertain timing and the chapel of the Virgen de la Victoria, patron of the city are preserved.
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ALCAZABA
Built on the upper bound of trujillano Berrocal , on a hill called " Head of Zorro ', the Alcazaba de Trujillo is an Andalusian monument of the Umayyad period , built sometime between the ninth and tenth century.
The walls of masonry cut in large blocks that enclose an inner core of concrete , form a regular enclosure 40 meters towers dotted hand, he traced in all elbows rassasi - unit characteristic measure of the Caliphate of Córdoba. A horseshoe- arched doorway without enjarjar very closed , surrounded by two towers , provides access to the enclosure, contemporary citadels Merida (towards 835 ) and Gormaz (Soria ) .
After the main enclosure , the Albacara a polygonal enclosure built immediately after the fort, to which is added one coracha Almohad stands .
Vintage and Christian are the outer wall with circular towers, the gully ormoat , now silted up , the flanking towers they go through gateways on the west side , and the outer barbican gravitates round the door Albacara . Complex latter time of the Catholic Kings , noteworthy for its small mailbox cover with fire extinguishers and deep pockets ( eighteenth century).
Inside the fort two tanks of uncertain timing and the chapel of the Virgen de la Victoria, patron of the city are preserved.
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