Puerta o Torres de Quart

The Torres de Quart or Puerta de Quart (also called Cuarte) are one of the two fortified gates of the medieval wall of Valencia that still remain standing. The set consists of two semi-cylindrical towers joined by a central body where the door itself is opened, in the shape of a semicircular arch. They are located at the junction of Guillén de Castro Street and Quart Street.nThe Torres de Quart owes its name to the fact that they were located on the road that led from the center of the city, from the Plaza de la Virgen where the Valencia Cathedral is located, to the town of Quart de Poblet. The towers were the western access of the traffic coming from Castile. The Quart Towers have also been called door or gate of Cuarte and puerta de la cal. nThese towers were built by the masters in the noble art of the pedra Francesc Baldomar and Pere Compte in the fifteenth century, between 1441 and 1460. The style of the towers is late Valencian military gothic, imitating the Towers or Arc de Triomphe of the Castel Nuovo of Naples.nThe Torres de Quart are the remains that have survived to the present day of the ancient medieval wall of Valencia, together with the Torres de Serranos, which are open to the north. These walled towers have endured the War of Independence of the French, the Succession, the cantons and the Spanish Civil War. You can still see the traces of the impacts caused by the guns of the War of Independence on its thick walls, many people thinking that are caused by the deterioration of time.nIn 1931 they were declared a National Monument, there being a reference to them in the law 16/1985 on the Spanish Historical Heritage. nYou can not stop visiting them and getting to know them when going to Valencia (Spain).