Puerta de la Macarena
Puerta de la Macarena rises at the northern edge of Seville’s old city walls, facing the Basílica de la Macarena. The classicist gateway is the largest of Seville’s three surviving historic gates.
Its origins reach back to the Almoravid expansion under Sultan Ali ibn Yusuf in the twelfth century, when the walled city doubled in size. Renovations between 1723 and 1795 replaced its Islamic features with the appearance visible today, while a surviving wall section leads towards the Puerta de Córdoba beside seven preserved towers. Monarchs including Isabella I of Castile, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Charles V entered Seville here during ceremonial arrivals.
A ceramic altarpiece above the arch shows the Virgin of Hope of Macarena. Manuel Rodríguez created it, and Infanta Maria de la Esperanza of Bourbon-Two Sicilies inaugurated it in 1923.
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