Sorrento - Door of Marina Grande Via Marina Grande
It is
the most ancient of the doors and at present it shows most part of the
characteristics of the ancient Greek doors. It was situated under a tower of
which only few traces have survived, but whose existence is documented by the
abbot Giovan Battista Pacichelli in an ancient map dating back to the eighteenth
century. Until the fifteenth century it probably was the only access to the
town, from the sea, and, together with the other door, situated in Marina
Piccola, in the Pre-Roman age, it constituted the channel of trade with the near
towns.
It is
the most ancient of the doors and at present it shows most part of the
characteristics of the ancient Greek doors. It was situated under a tower of
which only few traces have survived, but whose existence is documented by the
abbot Giovan Battista Pacichelli in an ancient map dating back to the eighteenth
century. Until the fifteenth century it probably was the only access to the
town, from the sea, and, together with the other door, situated in Marina
Piccola, in the Pre-Roman age, it constituted the channel of trade with the near
towns.