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Walls of Daroca

Daroca, Campo de Daroca, Zaragoza

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Walls of Daroca

Monument · Daroca, Campo de Daroca, Zaragoza

One of the most extensive medieval walled complexes in Aragon, with its famous seven gateways, in the Zaragoza town of Daroca. Its origin goes back to a fortified Muslim enclosure from the 9th century, completed with the castillo Mayor in the 11th century; after the Reconquest and the charter granted in 1142 by Ramon Berenguer IV, the population grew and the enclosure had to be enlarged between the 14th and 15th centuries, joining the hills of San Jorge and San Cristóbal. The wall, four kilometres long and built mostly in rammed earth reinforced with brick, came to have 116 towers — fourteen of them large — making it one of the most extensive in Spain after those of Ávila and Lugo, and it linked the castillo Mayor with those of San Jorge and San Cristóbal. The enclosure suffered serious damage during the Peninsular War and the first Carlist War.

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