Gates quart represent the ancient entrance to the Central part of the city. Gates quart is a pair of twin towers, connected by a stone wall with a gate. This design was part of the medieval walls surrounding the city, whose function was to ensure the protection of the city during the attacks.

The gates and towers were built between 1441 and 1460 years in the late Gothic style by the architect Pere Bonfil, inspired by he had seen the Neapolitan fortress of Castel Nuovo. The architecture of the towers has a lot to do with the tower and the triumphal arch, located in Naples. The name of the gate and towers came from the name of an old settlement, nahoditsea in the Valencia valley - quart de Poblet, which led from the gates straight road.

Huge, massive towers built of stone and lime. Gates, through which was carried out entry and exit out of the city in form of an arch, over which was once a picture of a guardian angel, and now the emblem of the city. Tower of cylindrical shape having a smooth surface which denies the enemy the opportunity to climb on them. At the top of the towers observation deck, surrounded by massive battlement.

Towers like tell us about historical events, which they had visited. So, on the surfaces of the walls of the towers traces of potholes from the shells, which the French bombed the city during the independence war, 1808-1813

In 1931 Gates quart were declared a national historic landmark.