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Now are going to speak about the three doors that close the occidental  wall. Originally they where the entrance the oratory. al- Hakam II in the Xth century built them.
The first of them is the Saint Spirit Door, it is an entrance that was closed; till the beginning of the XX century, Ricardo Velázquez Bosco opens it, helped by Mateo Inurria. Very similar is he Saint Ildefonso Door which is more southern. Its design is quite the same to the Saint Spirit one. 
It has a shouldered arch with horseshoe download arch and alfiz, but the new thing is that we find a serie of little blind horseshoe arch, crossing each other. By each side we find the lattice decorated with geometrical elements, also crossing. Every lattice is covered by polylobated archs. Among these doors you find the one called the doors of the three names, referring to the 3 denomination received, along its wide history.
San Pedro door is named like this because of this proximity the Saint Pedro and Saint Lorence Chapel and also Dove door, considered a sacred animal for Islam because it is thought that  doves protected Mahoma from Meca to Medina. The third name is Door of the Palace, because of its proximity to the Episcopal palace. This is one of the most interesting doors with Muslim elements / horseshoe arch / alfiz) and Christian elements / mouldings. All these elements are missed up with originality.
If we pay attention to these doors they are flanked by machones. Between these there is a little space that is like a slope. This is the width of the slope or Sabat, that the Caliph used for getting into the temple with intimity then it was linked to a little on dye that built in the XVII century, corrected the Mosque to the Omeya Alcázar (for tress). |
