LA PUERTA NUEVA O DE SAN FERNANDO

Abstract

This article deals with the exact location of one of the gates of the city of Seville, La Puerta Nueva or Puerta de San Fernando, constructed about 1760 to serve the Tobacco Factory and the city. Toe study is bsed on the discovery of a photograph of the gate taken around 1868, shortly before it was demolished. Also shown is a plan of the sector in which the line of the old wall which passed through Calle San Femando can be seen.