Arc of Elvira while a snowstorm

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by Guido Montanes Castillo

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Arc of Elvira while a snowstorm

Artist

Guido Montanes Castillo

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Photograph

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Arc of Elvira while a snowstorm
Door is known as Elvira or Elvira Arch to main access to Granada in Andalucia ( Spain ) during the Islamic domination .
Your name , bab- Ilvira , is that headed to the old Medina Elvira Cora capital of the same name until the early eleventh century , when it became Medina Garnata this role .
It was built in the eleventh century by the sultans zirķes , part of the wall that connected the east with Monaita Gate and the Gate southwest of Antimony Sulfide , bab al- Kubl , popularly known as Arco - the Tinajillas - . It has undergone various transformations throughout its history, the most important being held in the reign of Yusuf I of the Nasrid dynasty . At this time was comprised autonomous fortress with four towers , three gatehouses and two doors - plus outside- that communicated with the slope of the Alhacaba and Elvira Street . In 1612 the three gatehouses were demolished , it paved the Esplanade gate preceding the twelve houses were built and attached to the wall, which have reached almost unchanged today . During the French occupation destroyed several iron -plated doors and walls were demolished , and in 1879 brought down the Iron Gate ( Bab al- Hadid ) also called Puerta de la Cuesta ( bab al- Aqaba) , which was added in the XIV century medina to communicate with the Albaicin .
It is now preserved outside bend nararķ period , flanked by two towers of mud , all topped by battlements , and the north side running board , composed of three high brick arches that support the corresponding parapet . The horseshoe arch , similar to the Gate of Justice Puerta de la Rambla and is formed with segments , which are slabs of sandstone, Archivolt the same type and chamfered stone jambs .
Throughout the twentieth century , has undergone various restoration and consolidation : in 1902 by Mariano Contreras in 1957 under the direction of Francisco Prieto -Moreno , and in 1990 led by Antonio Almagro Gorbea and Antonio Orihuela Uzal . Since 2001 there opened a new intervention on the door and adjacent walls .
It has been declared a National Historic Monument since 1896.

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November 19th, 2013