Seville gate, Carmona, Andalusia, Spain, Europe
The Puerta Alcázar of Seville is a historic building in the town of Carmona (Seville). For its historical value was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument in 1906. The fortress was built on the west side, which was the weak side of the city. The Alcazar is built on the Puerta de Sevilla, forming a virtually impregnable defensive complex. It is located in the Plaza de Blas Infante. He suffered during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries important changes. It was restored between 1973 and 1975 and its dependencies have been enabled to hold cultural and tourist events. In 1996 the Centre for Tourism, Reception opened just after the stairs of access within the Alcázar. The Alcázar de Abajo or door of Seville, was the smallest of which was in Carmona. Located less elevated position of the population, was more exposed than others to attack the enemy. He was bypassed eight towers or castles which stronger, and also had a good square of which is only one piece of crenellated wall. Communication between the palace itself and the parade was made by the roof terrace or there over the arches that form the second door call Sevilla. When the Catholic Monarchs conquered Málaga, the Muslim governor Zegrí Amet-the prisoner was brought to the Alcázar de Abajo, where he lived captive in one of its towers. It has several elements to emerge as the Keep that reaches the height of the yard and not its rusticated blocks. The Torre del Oro from where you can enjoy a beautiful view of Carmona, several lounges and a playground cisterns so called because in the center of the courtyard is a well dug in the rock with six ports around. Oldest remains belong documented set between the ninth and eighth centuries BC in the Bronze Age. These remains are a stretch of wall in the rear of the Alcázar, a circular building hidden under the Keep, and the projection alcor rock to the left of the entrance arch. About this remains the basis of the work of the Carthaginian period is preserved, and is one of the few remaining vestiges Carthaginians in the Iberian Peninsula. Several significant elements that help understand the Carthaginian military knowledge and application architecture can still be seen. Opposite the entrance arch part of the Carthaginian moat seen in V shape. There exists a text geographer Al-Himyari offered a relatively detailed description of the city and its surroundings and who reads this structure along this wall runs a very deep pit dating from antiquity and whose rampart joins to the wall. This defense system prevented the entry of enemy cavalry armies, forcing them to move to the stronghold, from which repelled the attacks. The bastion is facing section of the Carthaginian moat formed based ashlars. La Torre is a Carthaginian building built with ashlars, although its present appearance stems from the various renovations that have been done over the centuries. In the seventh century Muslim rule granted the city more privileges and powers, including naming the capital of a cora during the Caliphate of Córdoba. They reinforced this structure adapting the door to a bent entrance, typical of Islamic fortresses, of which nothing remains. Tapial technique, one of the most significant contributions of the Arab tradition to set seen in the facade of the tower. This technique was to create cubic based containers wooden planks and fill with a mixture of sand, lime, debris and water that the set was as tough as stone material, but cheaper and available. Century AD, the Roman period the city, are the two spaces with interval covered with a barrel vault, delimited by two archways. These two arches of the door are Muslim era. The first is a horseshoe arch Almohad period, dated between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and following the Caliphate period, between the tenth and eleventh centuries. The matacán is preserved, the cantilever structure that protrudes from the door. After passing the entrance steps is the Terrace of the Annexes, with a privileged view, very suitable for the defense of the city, from which also triggering the mechanism that drove down the rake to trap enemies in the Roman Gate interval. In the construction technique of curtain wall clearly appreciate the lower part with ashlars Carthaginian, Roman upper part topped with a top row of masonry; demonstrating that the Romans height acrecentaron this structure to strengthen security and defense. Both sections of the wall, Carthaginian and Roman, are made with stones placed rope and brand. Through the curtain wall you enter the courtyard of the cisterns, which in turn gives access to other units: the Torre del Oro, the Hall of Prisoners Under and Hall of Prisoners Alto. In antiquity there was in this backyard a dated at time of Augustus temple, reflecting the definitive establishment of Roman power, which the podium on which it stood was only preserved.
Timeline of the history of Gibraltar | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of the history of Gibraltar
00:00:12 1 Prehistoric
00:01:54 2 Ancient
00:02:51 3 Muslim rule
00:08:06 4 Castilian/Spanish rule
00:14:38 5 The War of the Spanish Succession
00:15:52 5.1 The Gibraltar capture
00:22:40 5.2 The first Spanish siege (Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar)
00:24:24 5.3 During the rest of the war
00:26:02 6 British rule
00:26:11 6.1 Treaty of Utrecht
00:27:38 6.2 Until the Peninsular Wars
00:35:25 6.3 Until the Second World War
00:39:45 6.4 Second World War and after
00:55:00 6.5 Twenty-first century
01:03:46 7 See also
01:04:00 8 Notes
01:04:08 9 Bibliography
01:05:21 10 External links
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The history of Gibraltar portrays how The Rock gained an importance and a reputation far exceeding its size, influencing and shaping the people who came to reside here over the centuries.