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Walls of Talavera de la Reina

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Walls of Talavera de la Reina

Monument · Talavera de la Reina, Talavera, Toledo

Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) once had three walled precincts, tangential to the Islamic alcazaba, of which a good part of the first and some remains of the second survive today; the complex is declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in the category of monument. The first precinct, called La Villa, was built on the orders of Abd al-Rahman III in the 9th-10th centuries beside the alcazaba; it is possibly the only wall of its type preserved in Spain, with ashlar blocks reused from Roman buildings. It preserves eight of its seventeen albarrana towers, already from Christian times, between the 13th and 14th centuries. The second and third precincts, from the 12th and 13th centuries, protected the outer districts and were built of rammed earth, today almost gone through lack of maintenance and the demolitions of the 19th century.

Photo: Víctor Muñoz (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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