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[[File:Puerta Nueva de San Fernando.jpg|thumb|right|Puerta Nueva or Puerta de San Fernando. Drawing when was stand.]] |
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File:Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer The Seville Fair.jpg|thumb|right|''The Seville Fair'' by [[Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer]] showing this gate in the foreground.]] |
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The '''Puerta de San Fernando''' was a gate of the [[Walls of Seville|walled enclosure]] of [[Seville]] |
The '''Puerta de San Fernando''' was a gate of the [[Walls of Seville|walled enclosure]] of [[Seville]] |
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Revision as of 01:08, 22 March 2016
File:Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer The Seville Fair.jpg|thumb|right|The Seville Fair by Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer showing this gate in the foreground.]] The Puerta de San Fernando was a gate of the walled enclosure of Seville
It was in the mouth of the straight and spacious street of the same name, at the height of the former Tobacco Factory, now University of Seville. Also known as Puerta Nueva and no wonder since it was built in the middle of the 18th century, specifically in 1760.
Description
Draws the attention the monumentality of the gate, escorted in turn by the two crenellated towers that made faithful squires in its past defensive duties.
This gate had its two fronts unequal in architecture, as belonging Doric to the outside and Ionic on the inside. In each of those appeared four columns on pedestals, two on each side of the arch, which had of light 4'18 m. and 7.52 m. in front of the high and solid lateral towers.[1]
Demolition
This gate had a short life, one century. In City Hall of September 9, 1864 it was decided to demolish this gate, but having emerged some difficulties by Mr. Administrator of the Royal Heritage defending the ownership of this monument, as belonging to the Royal House, being saved in those days of suffering fate reserved for all its companions, although the revolutionary pickaxe turned into rubble after auctioned, along with that of Osario and Carmona in 1868.