Sources: Photographs by WTL © September 2015 and June 2007 in site in St. Augustine.
Images: St. Augustine's old Spanish city gates in the once walled historical center.
Comments: These gates are on the north entrance to St. George Street, down which the camera is looking north in the photo on the left and south in the photo on the right. At first these gates, with their doors, were wooden, but later the columns were made of coquina stone, as you see them here. At night the city's gates were closed and locked as preventative measures against the not infrequent attacks on the city by English invaders from the Carolinas and Georgia and their Indian allies.
Humanities questions: (A) What feeling does it give a city to enter through this kind of gate? (B) Do you know other towns or cities with gates similar to these? Mention one and the impression such gates give you.
Latin American humanities: Colonial urban architecture and urban planning; military arts for a walled city.