Arco de la Macarena
Moorish city gate once ringed by a wartime moat, now fronted by a lawn and garden walkway.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Arco de la Macarena in Seville follows a twelfth-century Almoravid gate that spent centuries hosting royal oath ceremonies, from Alfonso the Eleventh to Philip the Fourth, before 1836 turned it briefly into a fortress. You'll hear why soldiers dug a moat and swung a drawbridge across it that year, bracing for a Carlist army, and what happened nearly two decades later when a general finally rode through. The lawn and garden walking path you're standing on trace that old scar in the ground.
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