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The Torre del Oro (English: Tower of Gold) is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. The Tower of Gold was built 1220–1221, by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abu l-Ulà, with a twelve-sided base. It barred the way to the Arenal district with a section of wall joining it to the Tower of Silver, a part of the city walls that defended the Alcazar. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials.The tower is divided into three levels, the first level, dodecagonal, was built in 1220 by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abù l-Ulà; As for the second level, of only 8 meters, also dodecagonal, was built by Peter of Castile in the fourteenth century, a hypothesis that has been confirmed by archaeological studies; The third and uppermost being circular in shape was added after the previous third level, Almohad, was damaged by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Rebuilding of the third level was made by Brusselian military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht in 1760.
The Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower, is located nearby, and is believed to have been constructed during the same era.
Military function: It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in the 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana.
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Torre del Oro and Plaza de Toros Real Maestranza de Caballería, Seville - Spain 4K Travel Channel
We walk along the banks of the Guadalquivir while spring shows its best side. From afar we admire the Puente del Alamillo, the first cable-stayed bridge in the world without rear anchoring. It was designed for the Expo 1992. Already from afar our view goes towards the Torre del Oro.
It is uncertain how the Torre del Oro got its name. Originally it had a bright band of tiles in the upper part which shone like gold in the sun. On the other hand, in the 16th century, the Spanish treasure fleet used the tower as a temporary storage for the gold and silver, that has been disembarked from overseas.
The Torre del Oro was built at the beginning of the 13th century by the governor of the Almohad dynasty, residing in Marrakesh. It was part of the fastening systems but not part of the city wall. Together with the Torre de la Fortaleza it served as anchor for an iron chain in order to lock up the access to the port. However this chain was broken through by Ramón de Bonifaz and allowed Ferdinand III to take over Seville in 1248.
Today the tower houses the Museo Naval de Sevilla, with ship models, pictures, documents and nautical instruments.
From a platform at the top of the building you have a wonderful view of Seville and the Guadalquivir River.
Plaza de Toros Real Maestranza de Caballería is the former bullring and today a museum. After the one in Madrid, it is the second largest bullring in Spain. Build up like an oval amphitheater, the top ranks are surrounded by ornate arcades. The dainty form of the columns lend the arena a certain lightness.
The museum commemorates famous Mataderos. On display are magnificent costumes and weapons, as well as their training facilities. Of course, famous bulls are honored. The dissected bull heads are hanging on the wall. During the tour we visit a chapel, where the Mataderos could speak a prayer before the fight, as well as the stables.
On the way back to the city we pass a picture exhibition, installed on an open space. It shows works by Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian sociocritical photographer and photojournalist.
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Der Frühling zeigt sich von seiner besten Seite und wir wandern am Ufer des Guadalquivir entlang. Von der Ferne bewundern wir die Puente del Alamillo, die erste Schrägseilbrücke der Welt ohne Rückverankerung. Sie wurde für die Expo 1992 entworfen.
Schon aus der Ferne fällt unser Blick auf den Torre del Oro.
Woher der Torre del Oro seinen Namen hat, ist nicht ganz klar. Ursprünglich hatte er ein helles Band von Fliesen im oberen Bereich, das in der Sonne golden glänzte. Andererseits wurde er im 16.Jahrhundert von der Silberflotte als Tresor benutzt, um das Gold und Silber zwischenzulagern, welches aus Übersee angelandet wurde.
Der Turm wurde Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts vom Gouverneur der in Marrakesch residierenden Almohaden erbaut. Er war Teil der Befestigungsanlagen, aber nicht Teil der Stadtmauer. Er diente, zusammen mit dem Torre de la Fortaleza, als Anker für eine eiserne Kette, mit der man den Zugang zum Hafen abriegeln konnte. Dennoch wurde sie von Ramón de Bonifaz durchbrochen und ermöglichte damit Ferdinand III, Sevilla im Jahre 1248 einzunehmen.
Im Inneren befindet sich heute das Museo Naval de Sevilla, mit Schiffsmodellen, Bilder, Dokumenten und nautischen Instrumenten.
Von einer Plattform an der Spitze hat man eine wunderbaren Ausblick auf Sevilla und den Guadalquivir.
Plaza de Toros Real Maestranza de Caballería ist eine ehemalige Stierkampfarena und heute eine Museum. Es war, nach Madrid, die zweitgrößte Stierkampfarena Spaniens. Aufgebaut wie ein ovales Amphitheater werden die obersten Ränge von kunstvoll gestalteten Arkaden umgeben. Die zierliche Form der Säulen verleiht der Arena eine gewisse Leichtigkeit.
Im Museum wird berühmter Mataderos gedacht. Gezeigt werden prunkvolle Kleidungen und Waffen, aber auch ihre Trainingsmöglichkeiten. Natürlich werden auch berühmte Stiere „geehrt“. Ihre Köpfe wurde präpariert und an der Wand aufgehangen. Zum Rundgang gehört eine Kapelle, in der die Mataderos vor dem Kampf noch ein Gebet sprechen konnten, sowie die Stallungen.
Auf dem Weg zurück in die Stadt können wir noch eine Bilderausstellung von Sebastiao Salgado, einem brasilianischen sozialkritischen Fotografen und Fotoreporter, bewundern, welche auf einer Freifläche installiert worden ist.
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Torre del Oro Tower in Seville:
Gold Tower, Seville, Province of Seville, Andalucia, Spain, Europe
The Gold Tower is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain, built by the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials (a mixture of mortar, lime and pressed hay). The tower is divided into three levels, with the third and uppermost being circular in shape and added in 1769. The Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower, is nearby and is believed to be built in the same era. It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly from collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana. The besieged Muslim city soon surrendered to the Christian forces. The Tower of Gold was built 1220-1221, by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abu l-Ulà, with a twelve-sided base. It barred the way to the Arenal district with a section of wall joining it to the Tower of Silver, a part of the city walls that defended the Alcazar. There is a false tradition that a heavy chain went across the river from this tower to another located on the modern-day Fortaleza (Fortress) Street in Triana. That street was called Limones (Limes) Street until the nineteenth century, and also, the Chronicles written by King Alfonso X the Wise describe in detail the taking of the city of Seville. They mention the Torre del Oro by name, and only a chain that held a set of boats bridging Seville with what is now the Castle of St. George, on the Triana side. The Castilian fleet commanded by Admiral Ramon de Bonifaz broke through that chain and bridge of boats in 1248 to go up the river, while the troops of Ferdinand III of Castile besieged the city. This historic passage led by Asturian and Cantabrian sailors in the service of the Castilian navy has been immortalized on the shields of Aviles and of the Four Villas of the Coast of Cantabria (Laredo, Castro Urdiales, Santander, and San Vicente de la Barquera). It was later incorporated in the Coat of Arms of Cantabria as well, represented by the Tower of Gold and a ship breaking chains that closed passage up the Guadalquivir River. After this re-conquest, the tower was first used as a chapel dedicated to St. Isidore of Seville, and later it became a prison. The name Torre del Oro clearly comes from the gleam of lime mortar and straw that the building displayed. The legend that the tower was a storehouse for the gold and silver brought from America is completely false. Also false is the sixteenth century claim of chronicler Luis Peraza that the tower was covered with tiles that sparkled in the light of the sun. This same chronicler and Lopez de Ayala say that King Pedro I kept treasures of gold and silver in the tower, which is true. Gold was processed at the Mint, several yards away, and Pedro I kept not only coins in the tower, but also the sister of Maria Coronel, the lady Aldonza Coronel. The king had fallen in love with Aldonza and took her our of the Convent of Santa Clara in 1357. As she asked Pedro I for forgiveness for her husband, Alvar Perez de Guzman, she agreed to leave the monastery. However, once Maria Padilla entered the Royal Alcazar as the king's new favorite, Pedro I put Aldonza in the tower under guard. The tower was badly damaged by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and the Marquis of Monte Real proposed demolishing it to widen the way for horse-drawn coaches and straighten access to the bridge of Triana; however, the people of Seville objected and appealed to the king, who intervened. In 1760, the damage was repaired, with repairs to the bottom floor of the tower, reinforcement with rubble and mortar, and making the passageway to the path around the wall the door of main access. That same year, the upper cylindrical body was built, a work of the military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht, also architect of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville. These works changed the appearance of the tower as compared to what is seen in engravings from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. The Revolution of 1868 brought another crisis to the tower, because revolutionaries demolished the artistic surfaces of the walls and put them up for sale. Opposition from the citizens of Seville kept the tower from being destroyed, and in 1900 it was again restored, this time by engineer Carlos Halcon.
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The Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.
Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials (a mixture of mortar, lime and pressed hay).
The Torre del Oro is divided into three levels, with the third and uppermost being circular in shape and added in 1769. The Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower, is located nearby, and is believed to have been constructed during the same era.
It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly from collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana. The besieged Muslim city soon surrendered to the Christian forces.
The Tower of Gold was built 1220-1221, by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abu l-Ulà, with a twelve-sided base. It barred the way to the Arenal district with a section of wall joining it to the Tower of Silver, a part of the city walls that defended the Alcazar.
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Torre de la Plata
En Sevilla también se encuentra la Torre de la Plata.
Gold Tower, Seville, Province of Seville, Andalucia, Spain, Europe
The Gold Tower is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain, built by the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials (a mixture of mortar, lime and pressed hay). The tower is divided into three levels, with the third and uppermost being circular in shape and added in 1769. The Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower, is nearby and is believed to be built in the same era. It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly from collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana. The besieged Muslim city soon surrendered to the Christian forces. The Tower of Gold was built 1220-1221, by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abu l-Ulà, with a twelve-sided base. It barred the way to the Arenal district with a section of wall joining it to the Tower of Silver, a part of the city walls that defended the Alcazar. There is a false tradition that a heavy chain went across the river from this tower to another located on the modern-day Fortaleza (Fortress) Street in Triana. That street was called Limones (Limes) Street until the nineteenth century, and also, the Chronicles written by King Alfonso X the Wise describe in detail the taking of the city of Seville. They mention the Torre del Oro by name, and only a chain that held a set of boats bridging Seville with what is now the Castle of St. George, on the Triana side. The Castilian fleet commanded by Admiral Ramon de Bonifaz broke through that chain and bridge of boats in 1248 to go up the river, while the troops of Ferdinand III of Castile besieged the city. This historic passage led by Asturian and Cantabrian sailors in the service of the Castilian navy has been immortalized on the shields of Aviles and of the Four Villas of the Coast of Cantabria (Laredo, Castro Urdiales, Santander, and San Vicente de la Barquera). It was later incorporated in the Coat of Arms of Cantabria as well, represented by the Tower of Gold and a ship breaking chains that closed passage up the Guadalquivir River. After this re-conquest, the tower was first used as a chapel dedicated to St. Isidore of Seville, and later it became a prison. The name Torre del Oro clearly comes from the gleam of lime mortar and straw that the building displayed. The legend that the tower was a storehouse for the gold and silver brought from America is completely false. Also false is the sixteenth century claim of chronicler Luis Peraza that the tower was covered with tiles that sparkled in the light of the sun. This same chronicler and Lopez de Ayala say that King Pedro I kept treasures of gold and silver in the tower, which is true. Gold was processed at the Mint, several yards away, and Pedro I kept not only coins in the tower, but also the sister of Maria Coronel, the lady Aldonza Coronel. The king had fallen in love with Aldonza and took her our of the Convent of Santa Clara in 1357. As she asked Pedro I for forgiveness for her husband, Alvar Perez de Guzman, she agreed to leave the monastery. However, once Maria Padilla entered the Royal Alcazar as the king's new favorite, Pedro I put Aldonza in the tower under guard. The tower was badly damaged by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and the Marquis of Monte Real proposed demolishing it to widen the way for horse-drawn coaches and straighten access to the bridge of Triana; however, the people of Seville objected and appealed to the king, who intervened. In 1760, the damage was repaired, with repairs to the bottom floor of the tower, reinforcement with rubble and mortar, and making the passageway to the path around the wall the door of main access. That same year, the upper cylindrical body was built, a work of the military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht, also architect of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville. These works changed the appearance of the tower as compared to what is seen in engravings from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. The Revolution of 1868 brought another crisis to the tower, because revolutionaries demolished the artistic surfaces of the walls and put them up for sale. Opposition from the citizens of Seville kept the tower from being destroyed, and in 1900 it was again restored, this time by engineer Carlos Halcon.
La Torre del oro de Sevilla
¿A qué debe su nombre la Torre del Oro de Sevilla?
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Seville Torre Del Oro
Torre del Oro in Seville is positioned beautifully near Guadalquivir river and it takes it's name (in English meaning The Gold Tower) due to the golden colour it has because of the building materials used in the construction process.
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