... It was called "Puerta de Alcalá" (Alcalá´s Gate), due to it had been built in the road that finished in Alcalá de Henares, nowadays declared World Heritage City by UNESCO.
As Carlos the Third, also known as "the best Major of Madrid" did not like the design, he ordered to demolish the gate, ... Read review
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I´m going to write about a wonderful Gate of Madrid. I hope you like it and of course I want to apologize for my level of English.
The city
Madrid is the capital of Spain. It is in the centre of Spain, and although there are remains of a human settlements before the Roman Empire, Madrid become the capital of the country and of the Great Spanish Empire in 1561, when the king Philip the second moved all his family and employees from Toledo ... ...new wonderful buildings have been made.
Nowadays is an important city for cultural and business tourism, and its weather is loved by everyone who visits it.
History of the monument
In the sixteenth century, Madrid was a city rounded by a wall made with not very strong materials build to avoid the uncontrolled growth of the city and to have a control of the goods that were taken into the city. There were some gates at this wall. The king ...
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Advantages: Meet madrid! Disadvantages: Very expensive zone...
...about this fantastic place... La puerta de Alcalá...
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La puerta de alcalá was builded for the King CARLOS III, (called the best Madrid's mayor) and designed for Sabatini at the year 1778.
The first Puerta de Alcalá was really used as door, but the actually monument is the builded by Carlos III, and is only a conmemorative monument.
The style of this monument is neoclassic.
It has three archs and two ... ...MY OPINION *-*-*-*-*-*-*
La puerta de alcalá is one of the most important monuments of Madrid, but the zone is not the best, because it's too expensive and too turistic... But if you go to see this monument, please stop at retiro's garden, because it's really relaxed and a lake of place in the chaos of city...
Thanks for read me!
Bye and blesses of the night...
P.s.: Sorry about my mistakes but i'm spanish... and i'm practising my english. Too ...
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