This is a shot of the Puenta de San Martin, with a pretty good cross-section of the walls. The walls are in various states of repair. Some are very old, and seem to me to be Roman construction, though most of the historically-challenged guidebooks call them Visigothic. The Muslims naturally extended the walls a good bit, and one of their horse-shoe arches is visible here. Apparently the construction is from the fourteenth century, replacing an older bridge destroyed by flooding. The fortifications were augmented in the sixteenth century.
This is a shot of the Puenta de San Martin, with a pretty good cross-section of the walls. The walls are in various states of repair. Some are very old, and seem to me to be Roman construction, though most of the historically-challenged guidebooks call them Visigothic. The Muslims naturally extended the walls a good bit, and one of their horse-shoe arches is visible here. Apparently the construction is from the fourteenth century, replacing an older bridge destroyed by flooding. The fortifications were augmented in the sixteenth century.
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