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One of the gates in the fortified walls of the old Moorish medina called Alcazaba Cadima which reached maximum splendour with the arrival of the Ziríes in the 11th century. It housed the government and court until Mohamded ibn al-Ahmar of the Nasrid dynasty, built the castle in the Alhambra, leaving the Albayzín as one of the most important in-wall districts of the medina.