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The Puerta de Sevilla is a fourteenth-century gate in the western wall of Córdoba, built when the San Basilio quarter, the Alcázar Viejo, was walled and the…
The Puerta de Sevilla is a fourteenth-century gate in the western wall of Córdoba, built when the San Basilio quarter, the Alcázar Viejo, was walled and the city was extended to the west. Its name comes from the road to Seville, and the Islamic gate on that road, known as the Gate of the Druggists, is thought to have stood closer to the Alcázar and to have led to the city's great souq. The gate is small, a single opening with a flat lintel, with two small twin arches set against the wall beside it, a little tower that may have been part of an aqueduct, and the city's coat of arms above. A Roman tomb stands next to it, and in front of the gate is the statue of Ibn Hazm by Amadeo Ruiz Olmos. It is near the San Rafael Bridge at the end of the Avenida Conde de Vallellano.