Sign in with Facebook"Offputting in the extreme: the walls" Theodosian City Wall Tip by TheLongTone
Theodosian City Wall, Istanbul: 28 reviews and 49 photos
The Theodosian Walls sucessfully protected Byzantium from attack by land for over a thousand years and looking at their remains its easy to see why. This vast defensive structure, consisting of three walls, the inner two punctuated by guard towers and completed by a moat is a most formidable barrier. I wouldn't want to storm it.
Of course what you see today has been rebuilt, repaired and added to over the centuries - a process that started less than a century after they were built when they had to be largely reconstructed after an earthquake.
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