Porta Nuova (New Door)

Porta Nuova is one of the four ancient gates that delimited the city center of Marsala and was built in 1790 to replace the previous one that was built in wood that is now unstable.  The name "porta nuova " was assigned at the time of replacement.

The work is very simple in its representation with the sobriety typical of sixteenth-century classicism. Inside we find two tombstones that commemorate the message sent by the king of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, at the moment of entry into the First World War, and to the proclamation of the victory of General Armando Diaz at the end of the same war.

Next to Porta Nuova, on the side of the square, it is possible to notice an ancient stately building where there is a plaque that commemorates the night spent there by Giuseppe Garibaldi on May 11, 1860.

On the side of the door we find Villa Cavallotti, a garden bordering one of the city's bastions; the bastion of San Francesco, from which you can admire the panorama of the Egadi islands from.