{"id":15174,"date":"2026-09-30T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/puerta-de-elvira-granada\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:55:31","slug":"puerta-de-elvira-granada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/turismo-granada-guia-viagem-2026\/o-que-ver-em-granada-monumentos-bairros\/points-of-interest-granada-attractions\/puerta-de-elvira-granada\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerta de Elvira: The 11th-Century Caliphate Gateway to Granada 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing proudly at the intersection of Calle Elvira and the university district, the monumental <strong>Puerta de Elvira (Bab Ilbira)<\/strong> was the historic main entrance gateway into the fortified Moorish city of Granada. Built in the 11th century under the Zirid dynasty and expanded in the 14th century by Sultan Yusuf I, it is the <strong>oldest surviving city gate in Granada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adsense-zero-cls\" style=\"min-height:280px;background:#f8fafc;border:1px dashed #cbd5e1;border-radius:8px;align-items:center;justify-content:center;margin:28px 0\"><span style=\"color:#94a3b8;font-size:0.85rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px\">Publicidade<\/span><\/div>\n<h2>1. Architecture: The Grand Horseshoe Arch<\/h2>\n<p>The surviving monumental stone structure features a soaring horseshoe arch of solid stone masonry crowned by battlements. In medieval times, this gate was part of an impenetrable barbican fortress complex with defensive iron gates, four flanking towers, and a winding drawbridge access.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Gateway to Calle Elvira<\/h2>\n<p>Passing under the arch leads directly into <strong>Calle Elvira<\/strong>, Granada&#8217;s historic bohemian street filled with Moorish tea shops (<em>teter\u00edas<\/em>), craft boutiques, leather markets, and lively tapas taverns stretching all the way to Plaza Nueva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing proudly at the intersection of Calle Elvira and the university district, the monumental Puerta de Elvira (Bab Ilbira) was the historic main entrance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9739,"parent":15180,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15174","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5Jd8y-3WK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15174\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granadasmile.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}