City gate
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A city gate is a gate set within a city wall.
Examples of city gates include:
- Gates of Cairo
- Walled City of Lahore
- Chinese Gate in Nanjing
- Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
- Gateway of India in Mumbai (Maharashtra, India)
- Holstentor, in Lübeck, Germany
- Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany
- Amsterdamse Poort, a city gate of Haarlem, the Netherlands
- Waterpoort, Sneek, the Netherlands (water gate)
- London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London Wall: Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate
- Rashomon Gate, Kyoto, Japan
- Steintor, in Rostock, Germany
- The gates of the Basel City Walls, Basel, Switzerland
- City Gate, Valletta, Malta
- Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Spain
- Golden Gate, Kiev, Ukraine
- Golden Gate (Vladimir), Russia
- Brama Portowa, Szczecin, Poland
- Brama Młyńska, Stargard Szczeciński, Poland (water gate)
- Żuraw, Gdańsk, Poland (crane gate)
- Seoul's city gates, including: Sungnyemun and Dongdaemun
City Gate is also the name of a skyscraper in Ramat Gan, Israel.
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