badajoz, doors of the fortress arabic badajozs

Built by the Almohads, it has always been considered the main access of the enclosure, since it communicated the fortress and its primitive citadel, with the expansion area where the population was preferably expanded. The Old Town of Badajoz still preserves much of the urban fabric drawn by the Arabs. This door replaced an earlier one of direct access, which opened in the vicinity, flanked by towers. The Almohads built it as a double door in a bend, with a cremenated inner courtyard. The double extrerior arch is horseshoe, built with granite voussoirs inserted in an alfiz of the same material. The inner part was modified to half a point and built in brick. The double interior arch, also horseshoe, is composed of voussoirs that alternate granite with brick.

The whole complex is waiting for rehabilitation works and is currently quite degraded. The entire enclosure of the door was surrounded by a barbican today partly disappeared, on whose remains were built in the sixteenth century the primitive Town Hall and a beautiful Renaissance door with monumental semicircular arch and triangular pediment.

THE DOORS OF THE ARABIC FORTRESS OF BADAJOZ
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DOOR OF THE CAPITEL Built by the Almohads, it has always been considered the main access of the enclosure, since it communicated the fortress and its primitive citadel, with the expansion area where the population was preferably expanded. The Old Town of Badajoz still preserves much of the urban fabric drawn by the Arabs. This door replaced an earlier one of direct access, which opened in the vicinity, flanked by towers. The Almohads built it as a double door in a bend, with a cremenated inner courtyard. The double extrerior arch is horseshoe, built with granite voussoirs inserted in an alfiz of the same material. The inner part was modified to half a point and built in brick. The double interior arch, also horseshoe, is composed of voussoirs that alternate granite with brick. The whole complex is waiting for rehabilitation works and is currently quite degraded. The entire enclosure of the door was surrounded by a barbican today partly disappeared, on whose remains were built in the sixteenth century the primitive Town Hall and a beautiful Renaissance door with monumental semicircular arch and triangular pediment.


THE CAPITEL DOOR	THE YELVES DOOR	THE CORACHA DOOR

THE ALPENDIZ DOOR	THE ARABIC DDOR OF METIDO	OTHERS DOORS

CHRONOLOGIE CONSTRUCTIVE OF THE CAPITEL DOOR
Like the rest of the main doors of the citadel of Badajoz, the initial design was of direct entrance doors flanked by two towers, quadrangular according to the tastings and rehabilitations carried out. Later in Almohad times and perhaps in an Almoravid case, they were established with an advanced tower on the wall, cremenated inner courtyard and double door in a bend. This is the case with the doors of the Capitel and the Alpendiz. Somewhat more complicated are the structures of the Metido and the Puerta de Yelves.

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DOOR OF THE CAPITEL

CHRONOLOGIE CONSTRUCTIVE OF THE CAPITEL DOOR