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You can walk round the 900-m- (2,880-ft-) long walls, which possibly date from about 600 b.c. , though on the southeastern side you can see places where, much later, the Romans built bastions.
Once a vast fortification of 49 turrets, it ranked alongside Osaka and Nagoya as one of the country’s greatest impregnable bastions.
The Christians gradually captured and annexed the former bastions of Moorish rule; in 1236, Córdoba fell to James the Conqueror, followed by Sevilla in 1248.
Inside, there’s more art: all the major department stores project themselves as bastions of culture, maintaining their own galleries and mounting frequent world-class exhibitions of prints, painting, pottery, and sculpture.
Its strong bastions and high ‘curtains’ were never taken by an enemy.