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Why Puerta de la Carne de Sevilla receives that name?

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By AndaluNet on 15/03/2018

Currently in Sevilla, there is no door physically present in the area known as the Gate Meat. However despite its absence, It is one of “the doors” better known than we have in the city, standing at the crossroads of streets Santa Maria la Blanca with street Cano y Cueto.

The origin of the gate called Meat dates from Roman times, It is near the Carmona Door the only entries that remained in use once extended the walled enclosure that formed Sevilla in the Middle Ages. With the capture of Seville by King Fernando III, The Saint, the door was in the Jewish quarter of Seville. Known today as the Barrio Santa Cruz or the Jewish Quarter of Seville.

Gate Meat

The door of the flesh has received several names throughout the history of Sevilla, as Minjoar (Referring to an important member of the Sevillian Jewish community in the Middle Ages), Pearl door or gate of the Jewish Quarter. But the origin of the name Puerta de la Carne to a slaughterhouse that was on the outskirts of the city must, built in the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. It was through that door you entered the meat would be sold to the Plaza de la Alfalfa where were the Royal Butchers.

The area was an important commercial hub, because it was a key meeting point for merchants and was busy by traders and Sevillians, so the door was always open. Thing did not happen with the other city gates. Recall that Sevilla was closed for a fortification or gates whose outputs were determined and strategically placed and closed at a certain time to control access to the city.

Meat door step many reforms over the years. But unfortunately in the year 1864 its demolition will be carried out decreed by architect Manuel Galiano.

Meat door still in the collective imagination of the Sevillian because of the importance given to the site for hundreds of years, so still in the everyday vocabulary of the Sevillian to mark the area where the famous Puerta de la Carne was.

Source outstanding image: Barrio de Santa Cruz.

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