Gate of Alcalá

Gate of Alcalá

Also known as Puerta de Alcalá

Year

1769

Type

public art

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Charles III commissioned this triumphal arch to replace a smaller 17th-century gate on the same axis, and Sabatini designed something that rivaled the best Roman and French precedents: five bays of varying height (the central three arched, …

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