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PORTA FIORENTINA OR DI SANT'ANTONIO
The gate was constructed with the expansion of the 13th-century city walls and owes its name to the presence of emblems recalling Florentine power, placed next to the rampant dog, the municipal symbol of Campiglia, and the coat of arms of Jacopo Guideti, the captain of the people. It is also close to the church of Sant'Antonio (documented since the 16th century), and for this reason, it is also called the Sant'Antonio gate. The jambs are made of white limestone, the outer arch is in white and gray limestone, the hinges are preserved, as well as the slots for the closing posts of the wooden doors.
PORTA PISANA / PORTA DEL POZZOLUNGO
The original gate from the 13th-century walls was incorporated into a circular bastion reinforcing the walls in the mid-16th century, still visible today. In contemporary times, it was used as an entrance to the cinema, now discontinued and transformed into a civic cultural centre. Above the arch, the inscription "cinematografo" retains the memory of its past function. Despite the inner arch being reconstructed in bricks, the original jambs in well-cut limestone and well-preserved hinges are noticeable. The current adjacent opening, between Piazza Andreoni and Via Buozzi, is the result of a later rearrangement. Just outside the gate, also called Pozzolungo, is the Concordi Theatre, an exquisite neoclassical building completed in 1867.
PORTA A MARE / PORTA DEL RIBELLINO
What is now called Porta a Mare has undergone various transformations over the centuries. It was built with the expansion of the 13th-century city walls and later obscured by the construction in the 16th century of a circular fortification called Rivellino or Ribellino, now disappeared. The outer arch is made of white and gray limestone, and the hinges are preserved. The opening is part of a complex in neo-Gothic style, characterised by the presence of battlements, a result of a rearrangement in the 1920s. The name Porta del Ribellino or Porta di Mezzogiorno is now attributed to the pedestrian gate that opens approximately 50 metres to the left, probably opened when the Porta a Mare was obscured by the construction of Rivellino.
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