La Seu Vella Cathedral, Lleida, SpainThis town houses the third oldest university in Spain: the University of Lleida, founded 1297. Settlements here are traced to the bronze age. The name comes from an early population, the Llergets, and the area was Llerda under Rome's Caesar Augustus. In a mountainous area, people fled here for refuge from various invasions, and the town was destroyed-rebuilt-destroyed-rebuilt. Rome, medieval wars, Moorish occupation, the Spanish Civil War.
The city had been conquered by the Moors in the 800's, then reconquered in 1149.
The tower is the Cathedral, La Seu Vella, a/k/a Lleida Castle. Built in 1203, the tower was completed in 1431. See it at http://www.inspain.org/en/sites/theoldcathedraloflleidalaseuvella.asp/. With time, study the doorways there.
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