Spain · 13th century
Puerta de Alarcones ranks #8,079 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #458 of the 606 mapped in Spain. Founded 1216, it is older than 74% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 13 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Toledo, 1 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
The Alarcones Gate (Spanish: Puerta de Alarcones) is a city gate located in the city of Toledo, 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, 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.
Text adapted from “Puerta de Alarcones” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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