Badajoz bastioned enclosure

Badajoz bastioned enclosure - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The bastioned system of the Spanish city of Badajoz consists of a military fortification formed by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts, towers, bastions, hornworks, moats, tunnels and ravelins, among other defensive elements, built between the 17th and 18th centuries, following the defensive construction theories popularized by the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre, better known as the Marquis de Vauban, as an extension of a previous defensive enclosure that protected this border town. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military installation
date from: 17th to 18th century(prolonging an earlier defensive system from the 9th to the 16th century)

Source: en.wikipedia.org