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Town Walls

Town Walls
Zidul Cetatii - panoramio
koss_x_treeme, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
town fortification
Current function:
town fortification
Settlement:
Nagyszeben, Sibiu
Historical Hungarian county:
Szeben
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7927089556, 24.1508566445
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History

The parish church, built on a hill in the heart of the town, was the first to be surrounded by walls reinforced with towers. By the middle of the 14th century, the upper town to the south of the old town and, in the 15th century, the lower town to the north of the old town had been fortified. According to a town plan drawn by the Italian architect Visconti in 1699, Nagyszeben was protected by 39 towers and 4 gate towers.

Source:  muemlekem.hu
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