Porta San Tomaso

The San Tomaso gate, located on the north side of the city, was built at the beginning of the XVIth Century under the podestà of Paolo Nani. Until the beginning of the XXth Century, it was also known as “Porta Mazzini”. Commissioned by the Venetian Senate in honor of Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, the gate is topped with a statue ordered by Paolo Nani, which represents Saint Paul the apostle.

Porta Santi Quaranta

On the west side, we find the Santi Quaranta gate, thus named in honor of the fourty soldiers that were besieged and immolated during the prosecution of Licinio in Armenia because they had refused to admit the adoration of idols. The structure, rebaptized "Porta Cavour" during the Risorgimento, guaranteed access to Treviso to those who came from the West (Padova, Montagnana, Vicenza, Castelfranco Veneto). The winged lion, a symbol of Venetian power on firm land, dominates the exterior part of the gate, as well as the arched facade made of Istrian stone.

Porta Altinia

Porta Altinia, a third opening made at the beginning of the XVIth century, closes the south side of the city. This throughway, the only one still visible in the medieval walls, was used as a military bastion for land transit of all goods traveling to and from Venice, and has long been the symbol of the connection between Treviso and Eastern Veneto.