The Porta San Giorgio opens up in front of the church of the same name in Braida. It sits within a part of the walls that replaced the Venetian boundary fortifying it with stronger bastions. Erected around the early 16th Century, the interior façade is Austrian in style, with the exterior covered in marble. The San Giorgio Bastion runs along the right hand side of the Via Nievo and is really an extension of a previous Venetian defence system. The ‘San Giorgio breach’, which is slightly further along, has an open space that was once used by the artillery.