Puerta de Alcalá
Neoclassical triumphal arch with five granite gates, once a king's ceremonial entrance to the city.
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This guide to the Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid opens on the night of March 8, 1921, when a motorcycle drew level with a car rounding the arch and shots rang out, killing Prime Minister Eduardo Dato on his way home from parliament. It traces the three Catalan anarchists who trailed him through the streets, and the arch itself, five granite gates finished in 1778 for King Charles III and designed by Francesco Sabatini. Dato was the third Spanish prime minister assassinated within a generation, after Cánovas del Castillo in 1897 and José Canalejas in 1912.
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