Structure you walk under or through while entering a settlement
I'm asking for the specific type of structure that you would see when entering a settlement. They are usually over the road and you have to drive under them.
Solution 1:
The first word that occurred to me was archway:
an entrance or passage formed by an arch
Solution 2:
It’s a gate to the city.
Photos of many such gates can be seen on Google Images. Search for “gate to the city.”
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_gate, which notes that:
City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods and animals. . . City gates, in one form or another, can be found across the world in cities dating back to ancient times to around the 19th century.