San Michele gateway

San Michele gateway

one of the medieval gateways to the city

San Michele gateway of Riva, is one of the medieval doors of access to the old fortified citadel, the upper part was used as a bell tower for the nearby church; was restored towards the middle of the nineteenth century on the project of Luigi Antonio Baruffaldi. Over the centuries it was called “Arco d’Arco” in the statutes of 1274 and in other documents of the fifteenth century, because on the road leading to the other medieval town, came in the following centuries closed during the period of plagues and reopened only in 1796, when it was realized what is now called Rome connecting the city center with the church of the Inviolata; it is named after the church of San Michele.