Segovia y sus murallas en la Alta Edad Media : arqueología urbana y construcción histórica

Abstract

According to the traditional historiography, Segovia city wall was built as a result of the repopulation of the city at the initiative of King Alfonso VI, in 1088, after the conquest of Toledo, being completed in 1122, according to the available historical documentation. In the same way, the Toledo Annals qualify the city of Segovia as barren and uninhabited before this repopulation.Thus, it appears that the wall was done at once, as one unitary intervention and that the current city, which emerges with this repopulation, is set with a new construction layout, apparently free of conditions and pre-existing structures, on a clearance, or at most, on a field of ruins, but uninhabited.