The Historian · Martín · Madrid
Puerta de Toledo
This gate changed sides mid-construction — started for a French king, finished to mark his defeat. Madrid in one monument.
The last great city gate, begun under Napoleon's brother and finished to celebrate his fall.
— Martín, The Historian
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