31. Merlons are sometimes pierced by narrow, vertical embrasures or slits designed for observation and fire.32. The marble shades of the pavilion are capped with merlons to hide view from the grounds. 33. Top of the walls is fortified with a battlement with merlons , crenels and a walkway. 34. The design is trimmed with chamfered merlons , battlements with gargoyles and machicolations to the corners. 35. The complex is isolated from the outside by a thick stone atrium wall topped by merlons . 36. The Santisima Trinidad church has an atrium with a double arched entrance with merlons on top. 37. In the 14th century the church was fortified with a line of walls featuring pyramidal merlons . 38. The north walls and towers, with adarve encircling it, are decorated by rectangular merlons . 39. The Irregular castle plan included walls decorated with merlons to the keep tower in the southeast. 40. It displays crocketed pinnacles, a pierced parapet with quatrefoils and arcades in the merlons and gargoyles.