They burst out of obscurity in Spain not only to capture the great prize of the papacy, but to do so twice. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. Alternatively, the gate may also have been named after an important family, the Serrans, who lived in a street with the same name.The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Its name is probably due to its location in the northeast of the old city centre, making it the entry point for the royal road (camí ral) connecting Valencia with the comarca or district of Els Serrans (along the road going northwest towards the mountains around Teruel and eventually leading to Saragossa) as well as the entry point for the royal road to Barcelona, or because the majority of settlers near there in the time of James I of Aragon were from the area around Teruel, whose inhabitants were often called serrans (mountain people) by the Valencians. It was built in Valencian Gothic style at the end of the 14th century (between 13).
The Serrans Gate or Serranos Gate, also known as Serrans Towers or Serranos Towers is one of the twelve gates that formed part of the ancient city wall, the Christian Wall (Muralla cristiana), of the city of Valencia, Spain.
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