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The City Walls of Toledo comprises the walls made by different peoples that inhabited Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
Toledo was walled by Romans, and a lot of its stones were reused later in built walls, as the original perimeter was subsequently tripled.
The Visigothic King Wamba renewed the Roman fortifications, sculpting in its gates an inscriptions.[1] The inscriptions were destroyed by the Muslims, and restored in 1575 by the Corregidor Juan Gutiérrez Tello.
The Arabs widened the city and the walls. After the Reconquista, the walls were again advanced in outer line and new gates were constructed.
The gates and towers of the Walls of Toledo have survived until these days.
References
- ^ {{cite publication|author=cervantesvirtual.com|title=MURALLAS, PUERTAS Y PUENTES DE TOLEDO|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/descargaPdf/murallas-puertas-y-puentes-de-toledo--0/.
External links
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