Torres de Quart

This pair of squat cylindrical towers formed a western gate in the old city walls, built in the fifteenth century in a late Gothic military style. Their thick walls still bear the pockmarks of cannon fire from the early nineteenth-century siege during the Peninsular War against Napoleon's forces. For a time the gate served as a women's prison. Climbing the towers offers a view over the historic center, and the scarred stonework provides a tangible link to the city's turbulent military past.