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The Belém Tower was built from a beige-white limestone local to the Lisbon area and thereabouts called Lioz. [21] The building is divided into two parts: the bastion and the four-story tower located on the north side of the bastion. The 16th-century tower is considered one of the principal works of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style.
A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, [1] most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. [ 2 ]
Borj Belkari (Arabic: برج بالقاري, romanized: Burj bel-kari) is a bastion tower built in the 17th century as a part of the defensive walls of the Kasbah of Sultan Moulay Ismail in Meknes, Morocco. [1] Since 2003 this tower holds the museum of pottery. [2] [3]
The Nanaimo Bastion is a historical octagon-shaped blockhouse located at 98 Front Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company , which then held a royal lease on all of what was then the Colony of Vancouver Island , built it between 1853 and 1855 to defend its coal mining operations in Nanaimo.
It was originally located next to the Northwest Tower of the Fisherman's Bastion, but in 1976, when the Hilton Hotel was being built, it was located in the horseshoe-shaped garden of the apse of the former Dominican church. Its pedestal is a limestone of Haraszti with the following inscription: Fisherman's Bastion
This is a list of bastion forts. Angola. Fortaleza de São Miguel, Luanda; Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória; Fort São Pedro da Barra; Fortress of Muxima;
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]
Near the tower — where Baba Novac, general of Michael the Brave and Saski priest, was killed in 1601 by General Basta — there is a statue of Baba Novac. Deserted until 2007, the municipality of Cluj-Napoca undertook to include the tower in the city's touristic itinerary, financing its restoration.