Showing posts with label city gate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city gate. Show all posts

Medieval Village Gate and Wall

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Back in the medieval times when villagers built walls to keep out the travelling robbers, warriors, invaders and other low lifes, this is what the entrance to the village looked like.  In times of yore there would be sturdy wooden gates to be closed and barred.

Aigues-Mortes - City Gate


This is one of the gates of the walled town of Aigues-Mortes in the Camargue.  I have posted other pictures of the walls and ramparts of this beautiful medieval town.