Puerta de Elvira, well over 1,000 years old, is the gate through which Ferdinand and Isabella made their triumphant entry into Granada in 1492 and the last remaining city gate. It was once a grisly place, with the rotting heads of executed criminals hanging from its portals. The quarter surrounding the gate was the Arab section (morería) until all the Arabs were driven out of the city after the Reconquista. After the conquest of Granada, the Moorish residents left the area and their mosques were destroyed or converted to Catholic churches.
