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Puerta de Alcalá is a neoclassical gate on Plaza de la Independencia, beside the main entrance to Retiro Park. King Charles III commissioned it from Francesco Sabatini to replace an older gate in the city wall on the road to Alcalá de Henares, and it was inaugurated in 1778. It has five openings, three of them arched, with sculpture by Francisco Gutiérrez and Roberto Michel.

The Temple of Debod is an ancient Nubian temple begun in the early 2nd century BC south of Aswan in Egypt as a chapel to Amun, and later enlarged under the Ptolemies and Roman emperors. Egypt gave it to Spain in 1968 for its help in saving the monuments of Nubia, and it was rebuilt with two of its stone gateways on a hill near the Royal Palace, opening in 1972.