THE MEDIEVAL CITY-WALL

In 1170, king Fernando II of Léon ordered the construction a a new wall in order to expand the city towards the river. Its perimeter would be more than a thousand meters long of which 900 meters remain today. Hidden below houses or behind the secondary rampart, the new line of defense built at the end of the fifteen century to defend against firearms. Tui’s city-walls are the only roman walls preserved in Galicia. The walls had four main entrances known as the Pía, the Bergán, the Ferreiros and the Arco gates), and three secondary entrances which still exist (at La Corredoira, El Canto and El Postigo da Ribeira).