Fortress
Puerta de Tierra
🇪🇸 Spain
The Puerta de Tierra is a remnant of what was the entrance wall to the city of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. Raised in the 18th century by Torcuato Cayón, the doorway is carved in marble and is conceived more as a religious altarpiece than as a military fortification. It is listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural.
It is one of the most significant monuments of the city and today separates the Old Town (popularly known as "Cádiz" or "Cádiz Cádiz") from the modern part (popularly known as "Puerta Tierra" or "Extramuros") of the city.
Machine-translated from “Puerta de Tierra” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Puerta de Tierra ranks #3,533 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #140 of the 602 mapped in Spain. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,788 times in the last 60 days, more than 74% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cádiz, 1 km away. It is one of the 125 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. It is stop 4 of 30 on the Andalusian frontier castles, Cádiz to Córdoba. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Puerta de Tierra?
Puerta de Tierra stands in Spain, at 36.52613°, -6.28873°.
How famous is Puerta de Tierra?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #3,533 of 8,134 worldwide, and #140 in Spain. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Puerta de Tierra?
Arco de los Blancos, about 1 km away.
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