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ThePuerta de Atocha was a gate in the city walls ofMadrid (known as theWalls of Philip IV). It owed its name to be located in the vicinity of the old hermitage, later Convento de Nuestra Señora de Atocha. It was demolished in 1850. Its location must exit toPaseo de las Delicias [es][1]
It was added as part of the Walls of Philip IV in 1748, substituting the previousPuerta de Vallecas [es].[2] The last gate that was finally demolished in the mid-19th century was built byVentura Rodríguez in 1769 on a program to improve several of the gates of Madrid, which also were built or improved the gates ofPuerta de Alcalá andPuerta de Bilbao [es], the latter two bySabatini. However, as described theDiccionario geográfico-estadístico de España y Portugal ofTomás López [es] andSebastián Miñano [es] in 1826, the gate did not deserve "nor by its matter nor by its form, be one of the main of Madrid and was calling for the construction of a more dignified of the place [sic] in which it is located."[1]
The gate was demolished in 1850 to begin works on theAtocha railway station[3] in 1992, was given to the station the name ofPuerta de Atocha to the new terminal ofAlta Velocidad Española in honor of the missing gate.[citation needed]
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