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Quart Towers
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From March 15 to March 15 October: Tuesday to Saturday< /strong> from 10:00 to 19:00 hrs Sundays and holidays, from 10:00 to 15:00 hrs. From October 16 to October 14 March: Tuesday to Saturday< /strong>, from 10:00 to 18:00 Sundays and holidays , from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Other nearby points of interest are the Market Central, the Church of San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir and the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia.
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These towers are composed of a cylindrical plant It runs towards the outside of the city and along a flat road towards the outside. At the top they have a crenellated area with an ashlar terrace. Unlike the Serranos Towers, this building has little decoration that we can find in the lower part where there is a molding that ends towards the ground in a vertical wall in the form of an inclined slope. Throughout history the Quart Towers have been used for various functions such as gunpowder warehouse or prison for prostitutes, but their feat The most heroic thing happened in 1808 during the War of Independence since the people used This bastion was built to protect itself from the Napoleonic troops. Today, we can still see the marks of the shots on the walls of the towers.< /p>
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Long description
The Quart Towers were built between the years 1441 and 1460 by the architects Pere Compte and Francesc Baldomar as one of the main entrances to the medieval wall of the city. They are called this way because they were built on the road that took you from the city to the nearby town of Cuart de Poblet through which all the people from the Kingdom of Castile entered. Since 1931 they have been declared National Monument.
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