Piedrahita Gate or Puerta de la Villa Gate · Bonilla de la Sierra (EN)

The wall enveloped the entire perimeter of the town (1.1 km long, enclosing an area of 7.8 hectares). It had 4 gates, Piedrahíta, Villafranca, Ávila and El Mirón, where the roads leading to the respective towns were born. Only the entrance of Piedrahíta is preserved, formed by a double pointed arch, between which there is a space in which the doors must have rotated. On the outside and over the pointed arch, the coat of arms of D. Sancho Blázquez Dávila (1312-1355), one of the best known bishops of the Middle Ages in Avila, was embedded. Having disappeared some time ago, it would imply that the wall would have been built in the first half of the 14th century.