Puerta de Almocábar

Well known because it was an access exit to the old Muslim cemetery, which was located in what is now the San Francisco neighborhood. Later in front of this door was the Prado de los Caballos or de los Potros, a pasture endowed to the city in the Repartimiento of 1491. There the hermitage of the Visitation was built, the first Christian temple that was built in the city as a result of the conquest. In the middle of the 16th century there was a race that reached the convent of San Francisco, called Carrera de Caballos, where knights were trained in the handling of weapons and equestrian exercises. Then the hermitage was moved to one side, forming in front of the door a wide square called in the 16th century the Plaza del Pozo, or Almocábar, then Alameda de San Francisco. The hermitage received the title of Nuestra Señora de Gracia, Patroness since then of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda.