The Land Gate was, in many ways, the main gate of the Citadel  fortress since it connected it with the interior territory, but its history is made up of unexecuted projects and constant changes in its design. The fortress project carried out by the engineer Gian Battista Calvi did not even contemplate the construction of this gate. Very soon the project was corrected, and the northern opening was added, directly opposite   the Sea Gate. To protect it, it was also necessary to correct the design of the San Andrés bastion with the construction of an element that would protect the gate (semi-bastion).

Originally, the gate was  to be similar to the Sea Gate, but its construction was never completed. Subsequently, the gate was reduced in dimensions and never displayed  the artistic and architectural level of the Sea Gate.

The problems and reforms did not only affect the gate but the entire access system, since the construction of the exterior defences  in the mid-17^th  century and their subsequent modifications forced corrections to be made to the gate, the platform built in front of it (called a redoubt), and the way to cross the moat, which, perhaps, was done by a bridge, now lost.