Walls of Atienza

Atienza has two wall belts, of which it preserves approximately two kilometers. The innermost, from the time of Alfonso VII, begins and ends at the castle and surrounds the Plaza del Trigo and Cervantes Street (traditionally and until 1905, Calle de la Zapatería). It had four gates, two of them (that of the Villa and the Nevera) disappeared; one of them preserved (that of Arrebatacapas); and the arch of Guerra, now demolished, although it retains some minimal elements of its original construction. This first belt also conserves two gates known as that of the Virgin and that of San Julián or of the Hospital or of the High King. The outermost one was built in the time of Alfonso VIII. The Gate of the Exit -which can be seen here-, eight cubes and the enclosure added at the beginning of the 15th century of the Jewish Quarter, near this point, are some of its most characteristic elements. There was also at least one other gate, the Antequera Gate, near the Hospital de Santa Ana, which has now disappeared.