The Alarcones Gate (Spanish: Puerta de Alarcones) is a
city gate
A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway.
Uses
City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods ...
located in the city of
Toledo
Toledo most commonly refers to:
* Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain
* Province of Toledo, Spain
* Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States
Toledo may also refer to:
Places Belize
* Toledo District
* Toledo Settlement
Bolivia
* Toledo, Orur ...
, in
Castile-La Mancha,
Spain. It is also known by the name of Puerta de Moaguía, as cited in
Mozarabic documents of 1216; and Puerta Alta de la Herrería, because it is located at the end of the street where workshops dedicated to ironworks were located.
The gate was the forced access to Zocodover square before opening the ascent of the street of the calle de las Armas, by the lookout, so that, along with the
Puerta del Sol
The Puerta del Sol (English: "Gate of the Sun") is a public square in Madrid, one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre ('' Km 0'') of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square also contains the famous clo ...
, it was adorned whenever Toledo was visited by some important personage, as a tribute to theirself to the passage of their cortege.
It is one of the oldest in the city, belonging to the
Visigothic walled enclosure.
The Puerta de Alarcones should have a also military crowning, which was destroyed, building itself.
A staircase has recently been discovered in its right-hand turret, whose gate existed earlier, deeper than this turret, which possibly gave access to the walls.
Heritage listing
It was declared, along with rest of the Toledo's gates, walls and bridges, a
National Monument of Spain in December 1921.
References
External links
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Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the City of Toledo
Gates in Toledo, Spain
Visigothic architecture