The demolition of a house reveals one of the gates in the wall of Leon
Monday, June 14, 2010
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Cal Gate of the Moors, which was meeting the Jewish tribunal / Afaya Cal Gate of the Moors, s'aconceyaba au court
On the old "door Moors Cal" or "Santa Ana" rose in the Middle Ages a stage in which the court met the Jews Leon 
The demolition of an old building located at the corner of Calle Los Castañones Riaño the square in the old Leon has taken to light the remains of one of the doors which was the medieval city wall. After months of archaeological study, experts have confirmed that the door would be known as "Cal Moors" or "Santa Ana". The remains of the arches are seen on a wall flanking the site now empty "do not correspond exactly to what would be the door itself, the span of the arch -" said the municipal archaeologist, Victorino García Marcos " , but rather tower structures that existed in that place, a tower identical to that rose on the other side of the door. "
Victorino García Marcos added that the other end of the Plaza de Riaño there are "leftovers of foundations" of the analog tower and, with respect to the arcs now discovered, has carried out its required review and documentation. The building that will rise on this lot will, therefore, to "integrate" these historical elements without destroying them. Court of the Jews. For its part, the archivist and historian Alejandro Valdez also recalled that the two towers flanking the arch, "to give us an idea, would like the arc is now preserved in Castle Gate, but older, of course, since this was a Gothic door. "
This researcher exposed as significant evidence between the two towers, and above the archway, there was a platform or stage "in which he met in medieval times, the proper court of Leon Jews." Visual Valdez as an example the Convent of the Conception, between Rua Street, San Francisco Fernández Cadórniga and to imagine what it would be lying on the stage beams. Valderas
adds that, through documentation, is also known that in the same place, at least during the XVI-XVII centuries, there was a chapel or alcove "with the image of Santa Catalina." "When the Jews were expelled from Spain in where they lived were placed saints or images dedicated to Christianize these areas frequented by the Sephardim, but precisely holy Jewish or converted (as St. Catherine of Mount Sinai or the mother of the Virgin, Santa Ana, which is named after nearby neighborhood .) "The other side was the synagogue and around the seven streets of the ghetto of Leon", says Valdez, and these places just decided processions Market Lady, it could have gone a long way straight towards the square Mayor: "It was to avert the Jewish memory of the place." The Moors Cal door was demolished by the City Council in 1868.
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