Curtain wall (fortification)

Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey in North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.

A curtain wall is a defensive wall between fortified towers or bastions of a castle, fortress, or town.

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