The Porta Nuova is a 12th Century gate and part of the original city walls, consisting of two arches flanked by towers. During the 15th Century it was partially demolished and incorporated into other buildings, greatly restored in 1861, and again in 1931. This gate is one of only two surviving from the medieval walls. Materials were re-used from the former Roman gate which occupied the same site. On one side of the arch are Roman inscriptions dating from the 1st Century AD, and the other side has a tabernacle with the Madonna and Child with saints (1330-39).
