City gate

A city gate is a gate set within a city wall.

Examples of city gates include:

• Gates of Cairo
• Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
• City Gate (building in Israel)
• Holstentor, in Lübeck, Germany
• Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany
• Amsterdamse Poort, a city gate of Haarlem, the Netherlands
• London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London Wall: Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate
• Rashomon Gate, Kyoto, Japan

See also: Triumphal arch