DOOR AND BRIDGE OF PALMA  

DOOR OF THE PALMA

Your construction concluded last years of the 15th century, though it has suffered diverse remodelings throughout the times. It is defended by two cylindrical towers finished off under the battlements and on your base by the supposed Franciscan cord. It is the monumental mas of the strengthened enclosure and in your foreign part it is adorned by a suggestive round arch profusely decorated and flanked by two medallions. The access to the city was carrying out for the low arch, of proportions mas small and that was providing to this point of better defensive conditions. The wall bastioned was encircling her for your sides, where two lateral platforms were defending her from out and were allowing the descent to the river.

BRIDGE OF THE PALMAS

The ending of the same one places in the middle of the 15th century and is supposed previous at the edge of Palms, where access previous to the fortification would exist others. It was remodelled throughout the times, since the force of the Guadiana destroyed it in several occasions. Of there the difference between someone of your rompeaguas and of the "eyes" opened in some of arches, to facilitate the step of the water during the rises. The Fort of the Head of the Bridge was defending the step of the bridge and of the river, assuring the communications with the north of the peninsula and with Portugal. His defense was easy enough, by what the assaults from the neighboring country were realized across a few existing fords downstream between this one and the river mouth of the river Caya.

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