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The Wall of Tarragona (Catalan and Spanish: Muralla de Tarragona) is a wall located in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. [1] It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1884. [ citation needed ]
Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]). In a Jewish religious context, the term Western Wall and its variations is used in ...
The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (Spanish: Arquitectura neocolonial española), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. [1]
Toledo, Castile-La Mancha. Toledo is the Spanish city with arguably the most beautiful-sounding name when pronounced in Castilian. It's also among the most iconic medieval walled cities in Europe ...
Pyramid El Castillo (The Castle), 2022 Windows in El Castillo's sea-facing wall. Tulum was protected on one side by steep sea cliffs and on the landward side by a wall that averaged about 3–5 meters (10–16 ft) in height. The wall also was about 8 m (26 ft) thick and 400 m (1,300 ft) long on the side parallel to the sea.
The Dawn Wall (and The Wall of Early Morning Light), the southeast face On January 14, 2015, American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson completed the first free climb of a route on the southeast face of El Capitan (known as The Wall of Early Morning Light ), which they called The Dawn Wall ; the climb took 19 days and created the world ...
The Walls of Madrid (Spanish: cerca de Madrid, tapia de Madrid) are the five successive sets of walls that surrounded the city of Madrid from the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century. Some of the walls had a defensive or military function, while others made it easy to tax goods entering the city.
Curtain wall in the Alcazar of Seville [2]. During the Islamic rule, particularly in the year 844, the city was razed by the Vikings, and the walls were burned down.After that the emir Abderramán II, fourth Umayyad Emir of Córdoba (822–852) rebuilt the walls, which were again destroyed by his great grandson Abd-ar-Rahman III, eighth independent emir (912–929) and first Umayyad caliph of ...