Spain · 12th century
Walls and gates of Plasencia ranks #7,555 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #400 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded c. 1175, it is older than 78% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
The walls of Plasencia are a medieval military enclosure surrounding the historic centre of the city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres, autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain.
They were built at the end of the 12th century for defensive purposes, their chief promoter being Alfonso VIII of Castile, who in 1186 founded the city to defend both his southern frontier with the Andalusi territories and his western frontier with the kingdom of León. Although artistic innovations were carried out on its gateways in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the rest of the wall is preserved almost intact from its origins, still today enclosing the access to the area within the walls.
Machine-translated from “Muralla de Plasencia” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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