This medieval, “a cavaliere” turreted town gate [t.n.: ‘a cavaliere’ means ‘in knightly fashion’, where a large circular tower rides a pyramidal barbican created by the corner of two intersecting curtain walls just like a knight mounting on his steed] led straight into the main road of Borgo del Finale, now called via Torcelli. The tower therefore opened out on two sides, through a well-preserved pointed archway to the left. Interestingly, the gate itself stood perpendicularly within the tower.

After the opening of the seventeenth-century Royal Gate into the adjacent town walls, the structures of the original gateway were repeatedly and widely altered, so much so that the medieval tower was also used for housing purposes.

The original masonry wall made of large blocks of carefully-squared Finale Stone is still visible to the west of the tower. Indeed, the blocks of Finale Stone constituted both the corner/key stone and jamb/pier of the pointed arch set within a decorative moulded frame. The archway has now been cut into by the opening of a large window.

A marble bas-relief once stood above the gate depicting the Triumph of the Del Carretto Family. Nowadays, the piece is on the inside of the town walls in the nearby Piazza San Biagio (Italian: Saint Biagio’s Square).

Finally, the eastern facade of the gate overlooking the Aquila Stream still bears traces of past frescoes.