THE WALL
A section of wall, a vestige to observe along the Carrer de la Muralla
Banyoles was a fortified town protected by its walls from the beginning of the th century until the end of the th century. During this period, the city's doors were closed at night to be reopened only at morning prayers. Damaged during the Catalan civil war (1462-1472), restoration of this fortification was undertaken in the sixteenth century, but works lasted until the th century, when the wall had lost its defensive power. The only remnant observable today lies along Carrer de la Muralla, between Carrer de la Porta del Forn and Carrer de la Pia Alms. Built from travertine tiles, the local stone, this section of the wall features a door surmounted by a big arcade, a dozen killers, and two beige gazebos of Gothic inspiration surmounted by domes to seven pinnacles. These last dates architectural elements of the th or th century.
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