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Bab El Bahhr (The Sea Door)


Bab El Bahhr

The Castle Gates were named

BAB AL BAHAR North Wall

BAB HAWARA or HARA South East Wall

BAB ZANATA West Wall

El Qusr The Castle was at the East Quadrant of the Original Old City of when the Spanish built a fortress to defend from the Muslim Arabs, eventually got defeated by the Turks stood majestic guarding the city resting by the water

DOMINATING THE SEA at its Eastern side two columns 60 feet high

With one with a SAILING SHIP the other ROMOLO and REMO suckling the mother WOLF

who saved in the wild. They were the glorious start of ROME.

The columns standing to welcome the emperor, the pirates, the kings and guarding the guest, the attacher and the conquerers and the returning home

from a long night fishing on their boats, using fishing nets suspended surrounded by cork to keep it afloat allowing the fish to enter and later caught for sale at the fish market

In late afternoon the fisherman would feed the Sea Lions , and fix their nets for the next day

sea lions o be fed net fisherman fixing the net or putting cork

Nightly (fiaccole) lights would feel as Venice illuminated in a distance.

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