Sentences with barbican
bar·bi·can
B b - Access has not altered since the fourteenth century, when the maritime republic, then known as Ragusa, completed its two land gates, with barbicans, and two sea gates feeding the harbour.
- The original gate was built in the early 12 th century, the archway still showing Norman influence; in the 14th century it was heightened to accommodate a portcullis, and a barbican was added.
- The gatehouse is approached via a brick barbican, a defensive outwork furnished with arrow slits and end turrets.