Porta Catania (Catania Gate)

Porta Catania, part of the city walls, enables access from the South to Corso Umberto I.

The date of its construction (1440) is engraved in the aedicule, placed above the arch, which depicts the Aragonese emblem.

In the Norman period, in the square near the gateway public meetings were held. As the town meetings announced by the tolling of the bells were called “tocchi”, the port is also called “Porta del Tocco”.