Roman Walls of Lugo, Spain (No. 5)
The Roman wall of Lugo surrounds the historic center of the Galician city of Lugo in the province of the same name in Spain. The ancient Roman city of Lucus Augusti, founded by Paulo Fabio Maximus on behalf of Emperor Augustus in 13 BC in order to definitively annex the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula to the Roman Empire was endowed in the Lower Empire with a defense wall that has endured, with few reforms, until today.The wall, with a length of 2266 meters, crowned by 85 powerful towers, delimits the historic center of the Galician city and has gone from being an obstacle to its evolution and growth to being a monument integrated into the urban structure and source of tourist wealth.Built as a separation and defense, it has become an integrating element between the old Lucus and the one that has developed around it. Its ten doors perform the function of uniting one part of the city with the other and its promenade, adarve, has become another street that is crossed by local pedestrians and visitors.The Roman wall of Lugo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000 on November 30 and is twinned since October 6, 2007 with the Great Wall of China of Qinhuangdao.In 2015, in the approval by UNESCO of the extension of the Camino de Santiago in Spain to "Caminos de Santiago de Compostela: Camino francés y Caminos del Norte de España", it was included as one of the individual assets (ref. n.º 669bis-008) of the primitive way.
Bishop Aguirre's Gate
In 1894 this door was opened in order to facilitate communication with the Seminary that had been built nearby in 1885 by order of Bishop Aguirre and with the cemetery that had been inaugurated in 1858. It has a width of 10 m and a height of 8.15. It is carpanel arch and is equipped with enclosures for the use of fielatos. Like the seminar, it was carried out by the architect Nemesio Cobreros Cuevillas. In its construction, two towers of the wall containing Roman tombstones were demolished.
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