The Varos Gate with its watchtower was originally built as a separate masonry structure along the route of the then palisade fortifications of the Great City® as they existed at the end of the 17th century. This is indicated by the fact that the bastion route, i.e., the subsequently constructed masonry and casemates, directly abuts the gateway structure; a fact clearly confirmed by the existence of expansion joints.
The Varos Wall of the Great City extends from Bastion 1 (now submerged) to Bastion 6, along which the Varos Gate is located. According to the above-mentioned 18th-century plan, this city wall, like other city walls of the Great City at that time, was not built of solid material. Only Bastions 3, 4, 5, and 6, which were connected by palisade fences, were built of brick. According to the inscriptions on the marble slabs embedded in all three gates at Fetislam, the construction of the city wall was completed in 1818.
Casemates were built alongside the western part of the Varos Wall of the Great City. These consisted of a series of ten separate rooms attached to the Varos Gate and extending towards Bastion 6, up to a length of 45.95 meters. They were usually positioned along the bastion routes under the earth embankment to provide additional
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