The Puerta del Mar is a reproduction of the old Puerta del Real, which stood a short distance opening the way to the disappeared Royal Palace.

It occupies part of the space of the square that extended in front of the Citadel of Valencia and the old door, which opened the medieval wall on the road to the port of Grao.

This reproduction was designed by the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó in 1944 as a monument to the fallen.