Sciacca - Town Gate

(Local Name: Porta di San Chiesa del Carmine Salvatore) To the west of the Casa Arone in Sciacca will be found a square with a wide flight of steps leading up to a 16th century Baroque town gate, the Porta di San Chiesa del Carmine Salvatore. The front of the Chiesa del Carmine, a triple-aisled basilica, looks down on this square. This too is a Gothic building altered during the Baroque period. The rose-window in the original front still remains; the Baroque main door, with its truncated pillars, has never been completed.