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The Door of the Plan or Stabia rose to the entry of the city and overhung the east ditch climbed over today also it by a walled bridge. Up to 1866 on the Door of the Plan the statue of S. was also situated Antonino, the Saint patron revered to Sorrento, moved subsequently to the center of the Rate plaza. Incorporated in the boundaries to "watch of the city and the door" a castle rose also built in the 1272 more times destroyed and rebuilt with to spend some centuries. The door that gives access to the Marina Grande, as in ancient to the I bring, despite the various suffered remaking it is undoubtedly ancient. Built in square work with blocks of limestone prepared alternately of head and of cut, it follows the curvilinear course of the slope, cut to the feet of the cliff, resulting so compote of a vain pentagonal, perhaps covered from once irregular.

The work he dates, for the type of building technique in age augustea. On the bridge in masonry it rested that of wood connected to the door of Mass. Of the Door of the Plan, sets to east of the decumano maximus, we don't remain but some preserved illustrations of Giacinto Gigante to the Museum of Capodimonte since the ancient door was destroyed in 1866 to widen the Rate Plaza and to build the parallel principal Course to the greatest decumano.

The Roman road perfectly grafted him in the decumanus maximus through two doors situated unfortunately today to the opposite extremities of the same (hands west Minerva and door of the east Plan) decumano destroyed.On the western side to the exit of the city from the door Minerva we only remain of the rests of the bridge that the depth climbed over canyon that this side of the inhabited area delimits. Of it two pylons are preserved with the I attach some arc; the tall pylons around ten meters and planned on the rock, they are in conglomerate cementizio with a hanging in work reticolata and you tan of tufo; the light of the arc is of five meters around. In lack of excavations it is difficult to establish a chronology; the most likely proposal seems to be that of a dating in the circle of the IV or III century to.C. The door of the Marina Grande arouses, still today, disagreeable memoirs for the sorrentinis in how much from this door is that the 13 June of 1558 they penetrated the Saracen pirates that ransacked and they ruinously devastated the city. The door of the Marina Piccola is found at the end of a brief ramp that grazes the side of the canyon and it flanks the ancient church of S. Antonino. On the southern side we perceive the Door of Sovradonno or Parsano that it connected the city with the hamlets of the hills and it is situated at the end of the thistle maximus.Also this side was protected from a ditch that he connected, on the western side, with that of the Door of Mass.This door was very used in the Roman period in how much it constituted the access to the country and the rustic domuses.

Today the Door of new Parsano has been restructured and to its base they have been finished of the excavations thanks to which is possible to perceive the ancient foundation Greek fret-osca sets under the road plan.