page_title: Half tower
hierarchical_section_title: Half tower
caption_attribution_description: Carpentras
context_page_description: A half tower, open tower, or open-gorged tower is a fortified stone tower in an external wall or castle enceinte that is open, or only lightly constructed, at the rear. Towers of this type were used, for example, in city walls. City gates can also be incorporated into a type of half tower.
context_section_description: A half tower (sometimes half-tower), open tower, or open-gorged tower (German: Schalenturm, Halbschalenturm or Schanzturm) is a fortified stone tower in an external wall or castle enceinte that is open, or only lightly constructed, at the rear. Towers of this type were used, for example, in city walls. City gates can also be incorporated into a type of half tower.
caption: The Porte d'Orange in Carpentras, a town gate built as a half tower
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