The Towers of the Walls of Segovia

Abstract

Defensive walls have been a history along one of the key elements of human settlements, defining urban settings and even city status. Defensive walls and the city did not understand one without the other. In the case of Segovia distributed over the defensive wall, according to their morphology and plant design, there are three types of towers: polygonal, rectangular and circular. This difference does not seem to make sense in the case of a military element and without any aesthetic purpose, so we find no apparent logic to justify it. In historical documentation and apparently there is a contemporary unit in building all their drawing, which is not consistent with this stylistic difference observed in the construction. The construction is based on a measurement unit, which historically was usually related to the human body. These units of measurement, these historical construction modules, change from one civilization to another and from one era to another. The existence of different types of towers, building materials, canvases and constructive metric, lead us to think about the construction of a defensive wall made in different phases of construction, not as unified as a work seems to support the traditional historiography.