The Serrans Gate or Serranos Gate, also known as Serrans Towers or Serranos Towers is one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall, of the city of Valencia, Spain. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century. Its name is probably due to its location in the northwest of the old city centre, making it the entry point for the royal road connecting Valencia with the comarca or district of Els Serrans as well as the entry point for the royal road to Barcelona, or because the majority of settlers near there in the time of James I of Aragon were from the area around Teruel, whose inhabitants were often called serrans by the Valencians. Alternatively, the gate may also have been named after an important family, the Serrans, who lived in a street with the same name.
Exterior façade of the monumental Serrano gate, built in the 14th century.
View of the city-side approach.
Torres de Serranos and the city walls of Valencia in an old drawing.
The towers in 1870, when they were a prison. Picture by Ainaud, commissioned by J. Laurent.
Valencia is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name. It is the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023) within the Ciudad de Valencia and 1,582,387 inhabitants (2021) within metropolis of the Huerta de Valencia.. It is located in eastern Spain, on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea.
Image: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, València, Valencia, Spain panoramio (1)
Image: Puerta de los Serranos, Valencia, España, 2014 06 30, DD 86
Image: El Palmar Barraca 2
Image: Lonja de la Seda, Valencia, España, 2014 06 29, DD 20