#town fortification

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The Rostock fire of 1677 started on August 11, 1677.

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The Rostock Peace Treaty (German: Rostocker Landfrieden) was a treaty, or Landfriede, agreed on 13 June 1283 in Rostock to secure the peace on land and at sea, as well as the protection of taxes and other freedoms.

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Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain (No. 5)

Plaza de España: It is the main square of the city, it is located behind the cathedral. Unlike other major squares, it does not occupy a central place in the urbanism of Santo Domingo. On the contrary, it is located to the north, bordering the outskirts, specifically with the Paseo de la Carrera or Haro road. One of its reasons may be that what we could consider as the original main square of the city is not this, but what we currently call Plaza del Santo. The square is created with the construction of the walls of the fourteenth century. It was for centuries the site of the market and the bullring. The paving is from the late twentieth century. In it, is the Town Hall; the building of the Corregimiento de Rioja on the east side, built in 1763, in whose lower part was the Royal Prison, which had been moved from the Plaza del Santo; and the building of the Alhóndiga, former place of sale and storage of grain, in it currently houses the municipal offices.

Town Hall: Built on the wall of the fourteenth century, closes the square on its north side, being its central axis the only gateway to the city that has reached our days. It is a baroque style building, rectangular with two heights. Especially noteworthy is the central body with a richly decorated semicircular arch that gives way to the door of the aforementioned wall. The main floor has, under a very ornate frieze, two enclosed holes joined by a continuous balcony. All this is topped with a belfry in an upper body that presents the Bourbon shield on which appears a pediment topped by a sculpture of the goddess Fama. Escorting the set, you can see two small finials that support the shields of the city.

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La Muralla, Santo Domingo de la Calzada

La Muralla: It is the largest walled enclosure that is preserved in La Rioja. Ordered to be built by Pedro I of Castile around 1367 and completed in 1369, on the occasion of fratricidal struggles with his half-brother Enrique II de Trastámara. This monumental construction in ashlar stone, had a length of 1670 meters, with a thickness of two and a half meters, 38 towers of 12 meters high and 7 doors of pointed Gothic arcades that, strengthened with barbican and animated with the royal shield and the city facilitated communication with the outside.

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Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain (No. 1)

Santo Domingo de la Calzada is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain, situated on the banks of the Oja River. Its name refers to its founder, Dominic de la Calzada, who built a bridge, hospital, and hotel here for pilgrims on the French Way the most popular path of the Way of St. James. He began construction of the town's Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada is buried within and it is dedicated to him.

Philosopher Gustavo Bueno Martínez was born here in 1924.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada is also the site of the miracle of the "hanged innocent" a pilgrim wrongly accused of theft. The witnesses for his successful appeal, a pair of beheaded, supposedly cooked chickens are represented by their descendants, a pair of whom are kept at all times in the choir loft of the cathedral. Other descendants are kept in the local pilgrimage refuge.

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