Quart Towers
Cannon-scarred medieval gate towers, once a women's prison, now nesting ground for wild parrots.
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Quart Towers guide in Valencia traces the fifty-year construction of this medieval gate, passed between four master builders starting with Francesc Baldomar in 1441, none of whom lived to see it finished. It follows the towers through a market fire, a plague outbreak, and an 1808 artillery attack during the Peninsular War, then into a very different chapter as a women's prison known as La Galera. Stand close to see what centuries of use left etched into the stone.
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