Almedina Arch and Tower: Built on the Arch and Tower, the Tower had the duty to monitor and defend the main entrance to the interior of the wall. During the Arab occupation of the city, the walls stretched over two miles and is a powerful defensive system in which included the Tower and the Arch and Tower, which remains the main entrance to the uptown. In the twelfth century, Manchester became the capital of a new kingdom, and is at the top of the hill (now Largo D. Diniz) which stood the dungeon of the Castle. It was there that was the Puerta del Sol one of the most important gateways to the city. The wall then followed the direction of the Tower and Tower, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth serves as House Hearing of the House. But in the name are the clearest memories of the Arab presence in India. During the Arab occupation of the city, the walls stretched over a mile and is a powerful defensive system in which they were part of the Tower and the Arch and Tower, which remains the main entrance to the uptown. At the Barbican, currently features seventeenth-century, are still visible, the clearing of two horseshoe arches of the old city portal Dual Muslim. The logic of winners set new aesthetic codes: a sculpture of the Virgin and the Child by Jean de Rouen prevails today in the Barbican Gate. |
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