In its origins, back in the 15th century, it was part of the enclosure that, joining the remains of the medieval wall of the 12th century - in one of whose sections, located on the Cuesta de San Vicente, was found, in a miraculous way, the image of the Black Virgin and Patroness of Madrid, which is called 'de la Almudena'- surrounded medieval Madrid.

The name, as causally occurs with other great gates of an infinity of ancient cultures, such as the one that was located in the ancient and troglodyte city of Tiermes or Termancia, is given by a great sun - nowadays disappeared - that the adorned.

A great sun, which, like the apses of the old medieval Romanesque churches, was oriented towards the east, that is, towards the place where the sun rises every day.

A detail that, although the door no longer exists, nevertheless makes the place that it kept for so many centuries, of course, have a very special luminosity.

And apart from being also the place where the city of Madrid venerates that mysterious image of the Bear and the it also preserves the severe equestrian statue of King Carlos III and that cheerful invitation to the joy and consumption of that metaphorical sunny and Andalusian gold, which is that world-famous wine under the name of Tío (Uncle) Pepe, who likes to provoke both national and foreign photographers.

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