The Landport (Spanish: Puerta de Tierra) is a gate into the territory of Gibraltar.

It was originally the only entrance to the fortification from the land and so was heavily fortified and guarded.

After the territory was first captured from the Spanish in 1704, the British defended the Landport with twenty guns.

The ditch's defences included a palisade and a gunpowder mine which could be exploded beneath an assault.

Tobacco smugglers would exit the gate at this time and lurk outside, waiting for an opportunity to cross the neutral ground into Spain during the night.