The Puerta de Carmona, the most important access that the old wall of Seville had(Jewels of our neighborhood)

The old Via Augusta de Hispalis started from the Carmona gate, traced by the Romans and leading to Rome. And next to this door the water entered the city that, through the Caños de Carmona, was brought from the springs of Alcalá de Guadaíra. The Count of Barajas had the east gate of the city rebuilt in 1578, one of the most remarkable of those that housed the wall.

Thus, in the year 889 he saw the entry of the caliphal troops who came from Córdoba and put down a revolt by the population of Isbilya. In 1540, troops from Seville left through it to come to the aid of Gibraltar, which was being looted by Barbarossa's corsairs. Tradition says that the banner of the city was so large and imposing that it was carried by the Seville troops (led by D. Rodrigo de Saavedra) that it had to be passed over the wall since it was impossible to get it out through the door.

The last battle fought in Seville by the Napoleonic troops, who left it forever in August 1812, took place on this same site. Unfortunately, Marshal Soult had previously fled with all the paintings and works of art that he had managed to collect throughout of his "successful" mandate.

The Carmona gate, also Almoravid, completely renovated in the 16th century; It was located on the corner of San Esteban and Menéndez Pelayo streets.

Finally in 1843, during the siege suffered by the city in the Carlist wars, according to the words of D. Alfonso Álvarez-Benavides 24 bombs on the Carmona gate, or what is the same, a whopping 161 kg of iron.

This door was the beginning of the royal road to the Court, attached to its left with the Caños de Carmona. In its limits it had the macabre Royal Table or dissection table for executed corpses where they were cut up for their exemplary exhibition in the city.

Diego Corriente the famous bandit, executed in the Plaza de San Francisco in Seville in 1781, was cut to pieces at the dreaded table.

In 1868, during the Glorious Revolution and despite the opposition of the mayors of the neighborhood and the neighbors, the Carmona gate was demolished.

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