Arco de la Villa - Alcaudete
The arch was once one of the gates through which the walled enclosure of the medieval city was accessed, replaced and displaced between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the new stone arch that exists today. Located 662m above sea level, the original medieval gate was flanked by towers, allowing direct entry into the city from the east. Although today the structures that formed it have disappeared, some evidence remains to determine its exact location, which corresponds to a place further behind the arch that is currently called Puerta de La Villa, since the remains of the basement of one of the towers that defended it appeared in the first decade of the twenty-first century in the construction works of a nearby lot. This primitive gate would have been dismantled when the city’s granary was built in the sixteenth century.
Location
Located on Calle General Baena.