Valdická brána
Czechia
You walk through it before you climb it. The passage beneath Valdická brána links Valdštejnovo náměstí with Žižkovo náměstí, and as you pass under, look up: the ceiling is a late-Gothic cross vault with double ribs, one of the oldest things you can touch here. The gate is the only surviving piece of Jičín's medieval fortifications. It stood on the eastern side of the town, and over the centuries it answered to several names: the High Gate, the New Gate, the Hradec Gate, the Tower Gate. In 1816 its siblings, the Prague and Velišská gates, were demolished and the walls were left to decay. This one stayed.
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