Door of the Cordoba Roman bridge in Plaza Valillas

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Door of the Cordoba Roman bridge in Plaza Valillas

The door of the bridge, known for the |musulmanes| as Bab to the -Qantara and in the XIII century as door of Algeciras are the traditional southern access to the city from remote times.The current door of the bridge of the city has your origin in the XVI century when the town hall decided endow to the city of a better door due to the state in which found she who existed to him from making centuries. Of this way on 18th February 1572 the town hall of the Arteaga licentiate corregidor agrees build the door of the bridge. Rising in the time of Felipe II (1572) for will hayfield Ruiz III, trade of one of the more attractive works of the last third of the XVI century. On the occasion of the bringing down of the adjacent wall, it is built in 1928 to way of commemorative monument in front of the river. It is understands it trained mail as the triumphal arch

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