Nuova Gate in Marsala
Porta Nuova in Marsala is one of the ancient gates of access to the city, located at the end of via XI Maggio. Of the ancient gates, today only two remain: Porta Garibaldi and Porta Nuova.
Porta Nuova was built at the end of the 18th century on a project by the engineer Meo in place of a pre-existing door. The ancient gate that was part of the defensive system of the city walls and ramparts, made of wood by the carpenter Gaspare Paci, was demolished because it was unsafe.
The gate has the typical sobriety of sixteenth-century classicism, while taking up the model of the triumphal arch Roman to a fornix, on the sides of which there are two empty niches. The external facade facing south-west is divided into three sectors by long pilasters placed on high plinths, the central body is occupied by the fornix and the sides by niches for statues. The body of the building ends with a fake attic floor defined by a Baroque-style pediment with wavy and wavy lines. Inside the archway, two plaques recall the message sent by the king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele III when he entered the First World War on May 24, 1915, and the proclamation of the victory of General Armando Diaz at the end of the same war.
