Puerta de Alcalá

Today: Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid

Place: Madrid
Kind: Gate
Built: 1769 to 1778
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Visible from outside

The royal city gate on the road to Alcalá, built between 1769 and 1778 by Francesco Sabatini for Carlos III, with sculpture by Francisco Gutiérrez and Roberto Michel. Its three arches are decorated with mottoes, arms, banners and cornucopias. It stands in the middle of the plaza de la Independencia, beside one of the entrances to the Retiro.

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