TY  - ADVS
TI  - Puerta del Parian
KW  - Forts and fortifications
KW  - Intramuros, Manila
KW  - parian gate
KW  - intramuros gate
KW  - gates
KW  - walled city
KW  - chinese quarters
KW  - sentry tower
KW  - crownwork
KW  - falsa-braga
KW  - puerta del parian
N1  - Parian gate. Photo of the gate fronting the Chinese quarters. One of the city''s two main passages (the other being "Real"). Parian was situated in the middle of the stone curtain facing the northeast. Formidable and strategic, the gate had a guard station "capacious enough to lodge a company of men" and a sentry tower equipped with cannons and concrete shields. The outer defenses of the gate were no less impressive: a crownwork (an outwork consisting of a central bastion connected by curtains with two demi-bastions and connected by wings with the main work"), a false-braga (a second rampart exterior parallel to the main rampart and considerably below its level), a ditch, a parapet and a palisade.; print
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