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including two extant towers, and parts of the wall itself. In the 13th century, construction began on the wall that would surround the entire Vila Vella, along with the monastery and its outbuildings. In order to protect the city from pillage, Abbot Ramon de la Bisbal (1230-1248) had the walls of the monastic houses reinforced with two towers and began construction of the wall, with twenty-four towers and drawbridges at two of its three gates: one next to the Ter bridge and the other at the Malconsell spring; one of the gates connected with the monastery enclosure, south of the church's head. The wall was reinforced on several occasions and came to have up to six access gates.