The impressive Land Gate marks the original entry to Medieval Famagusta. Among the wall's oldest elements, second in age only to Othello's Tower, is constitutes a special highlight in fortification architecture. In the course of time, it was known as the Ravelin, the Rivettina Bastion, and the Akkule respectively by alternating occupants of Famagusta. Its beginning was a Lusignan tower just outside the gate, later further fortified and incorporated into the city walls by the Venetians. The architects of the Venetians walls of Famagusta took advantage of existing rocks for its base, thus making it very difficult to undermine. Accordingly, the walls were never taken during the Ottoman siege in 1570, but rahter famine and plague led to the surrender of the Venetians.

Today, visitors can access the core of the structure by following the Land Gate's mazy corridors connecting chambers and rooms on many different levels. The Land Gate is a masterpiece of defense architecture, which for eight months enabled the Venetians to hold out against a Turkish army that outnumbered them twentifold.