The Torre del Portal de Riudoms is a cultural heritage site in Vila-seca, located in the Tarragonès region. It was a corner tower that remained unnoticed until the building it was integrated into was demolished. Today, only part of its base is preserved. This location was where one of the village's access gates, the portal de Riudoms, was situated.
The village of Vila-seca was defended by a series of twelve towers that formed a double walled enclosure. These towers share a quadrangular floor plan, a specific internal distribution of floors, the use of the building material 'emprat', and a similar construction method. The walls are approximately 75 cm thick.
While the towers may have originally had merlons, there are no observed signs of their existence. The oldest core of the village, which corresponds to the first walled enclosure, is rectangular and is delimited by the streets of Major, Monterols, and Riudoms.
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Written by Nik Frost
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