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PORTA SAN TOMASO (GATE OF ST. THOMAS), - Treviso
 
Porta San Tomaso (Gate of St. Thomas), located northward of Treviso, was planned by Paolo Nani in the first years of 16th century and it was built by Gugliemo D’Alzano from Bergamo even if the history doesn’t exclude the intervention of marble workers coming from Venice, as the Lombardo brothers.
   

The statue, located on the top of the Gate, represents St. Paul and not St. Thomas as the folk customs report.

The events, even if little known, are detailed: the Venetian senate ordered Podestà of Treviso to dedicate the Gate to St. Thomas Becket (archbishop of Canterbury, born in London in the first years of 12th century, died in 1170 and canonized by the Pope Alexander the Third after some year), but Paolo Nani caused to raise a statue representing St. Paolo, his namesake, on the top of the roofing.

On the right: Porta San Tomaso - 1846 - Engraving by Antonio Nani. (Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso)

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Porta San Tomaso today
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The writing, located externally on the middle main arch likewise Porta Santi Quaranta (Gate of Forty Saints), reports these words: "Porta de San Thomaso".

In dialect of Veneto to those who are entering from country (in the vast majority farmers); the same writing is placed on the middle main inside arch in Latin (Porta Sancti Thomae - Dominus custodiat introitum et exitum tuum) to point out the difference between the aristocratic culture of the centre and the country.

During the history the name of the Gate changed: it was called "Porta Mazzini" in the Risorgimento risings and it maintained this name for some decades after the 1900, until the old name was revived.

   
 
   
   

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