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The gate owes its name to the underground cisterns used to collect rainwater. For a long time it was one of the main accesses to the old, fortified city, where most of the population lived until the early 18th century.

Gateway to the village of Bitetto

From here the main road artery of the medieval city opens, namely via Porta Piscina, which connects said urban access to the Cathedral. The toponyms of the door and of the homonymous street derive from the existence in the immediate suburb outside of Moenia of some underground cisterns, used for the collection of rainwater. The city gate has the high plinth made with Trani stone ashlars, the round archway, the ring of which is highlighted by a crown of serrated bosses and the emphasis on the Bolognino key. Above the fornix there is an epigraph and two heraldic coats of arms with the typical Angevin shield with an inverted ogive. The upper floor has a battlements with quadrangular teeth, a reminder of the Guelph factio.

Artistic works Embedded in the machine there is an interesting mural painting on plastered stone representing two angels holding a picture - now stolen - of the Madonna del Piano, perhaps an original of the '600. At the top of the mural is painted the figure of the Eternal Father surrounded by cherubs, painted by the painter Carlo Rosa in the first half of the 1700s.