Puerta de Atocha (city gate)

The Puerta de Atocha was a gate in the city walls of Madrid (known as the Walls of Philip IV).

Its location must exit to Paseo de las Delicias [es][1] It was added as part of the Walls of Philip IV in 1748, substituting the previous Puerta de Vallecas [es].

[2] The last gate that was finally demolished in the mid-19th century was built by Ventura Rodríguez in 1769 on a program to improve several of the gates of Madrid, which also were built or improved the gates of Puerta de Alcalá and Puerta de Bilbao [es], the latter two by Sabatini.

However, as described the Diccionario geográfico-estadístico de España y Portugal of Tomás López and Sebastián Miñano [es] in 1826, the gate did not deserve "nor by its matter nor by its form, be one of the main of Madrid and was calling for the construction of a more dignified of the place [sic] in which it is located.

"[1] The gate was demolished in 1850 to begin works on the Atocha railway station[3] in 1992, was given to the station the name of Puerta de Atocha to the new terminal of Alta Velocidad Española in honor of the missing gate.