Category Archives: Gates

The ancient Porta del Torrione stands at the end of Via Innocenzo VIII. A small climb, closed by a wall on the right and equipped with a staircase on the left, leads to the city entrance arch.

Porta Romana stands in the San Giorgio district. It gives access to the town to those coming from the Cimini family; it is the only survivor of the three gates that in the eighteenth century connected the town of Soriano to the main communication routes.

In the fourteenth century the walls of Soriano were built, equipped with four doors, the main one of which was Porta del Ponte. originally the gate was surrounded by a moat and equipped with a drawbridge; in the eighteenth century modifications were made to further embellish the building; destroyed a cause of the 1944 air raid, it was rebuilt maintaining the previous forms: the current layout shows the appearance of the one built in 1903 on a project by Angelo Santocchi.

Porta Vecchia, an ancient gateway to the town, rises along Via Pennazzi, in the Rione Rocca, between two rows of fortified houses.