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- Title
Juan Martín Zermeño y los planos de Zamora de 1766.
- Authors
LÓPEZ BRAGADO, DANIEL; ARENAS PRIETO, FERNANDO; LAFUENTE SANCHEZ, VICTOR-ANTONIO
- Abstract
After the Seven Years War the frontier of Castile was in a precarious and unguarded situation, for which reason the authorities entrusted the military engineer Juan Martín Zermeño with producing a design to reinforce the defences of the main urban centres on the Portuguese border. That commission included the project for the city of Zamora, which is the first surviving plan of its urban layout. This article will analyse Zermeño’s proposal for fortifications, as well as the depiction of the city as it offers the only graphic record of the numerous buildings that were destroyed during the Napoleonic invasion and the subsequent disentailments.
- Subjects
ZAMORA (Spain); SPAIN; MILITARY engineering; SIEGE warfare; FORTIFICATION; CITY walls; CASTLE design &; construction
- Publication
Goya, 2020, Issue 371, p100
- ISSN
0017-2715
- Publication type
Article