Postigo del Aceite

The Postigo del Aceite (gate of the Oil) (known in Muslim times as bad al-Qatay) is with the Puerta de la Macarena and Puerta de Córdoba the only three access preserved in today of those who had the walls of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.

Located in the old area of Puerto de Indias, next to the Correos building in the barrio del Arenal of Seville, including the calle Dos de Mayo and the calle Almirantazgo, bordering the Royal Dockyards of Seville.

It was built in the year 1107, in times of Ali ibn Yusuf, and renovated in 1572 - 1573 by architect Benvenuto Tortello under the mandate of Francisco Zapata y Cisneros, 1st Count of Barajas, who then held the position of mayor.

In the 18th century was opened on its right side a small chapel which had a baroque altarpiece with an image of the Immaculate Conception attributed to Pedro Roldán.

On the inside of the postigo, on the arch, it features a carved stone representation of Saint Ferdinand, with the bishops Isidore and Leander and, under it, a tombstone that attests the reform by Tortello.