Porta Soprana Genova

The door still evidently marks the oldest city, creating a sort of key point on the walls that passed outside Via di Ravecca and Via S. Lorenzo a thousand years ago, enclosing the most perched part of the Castle and a stretch of the plain below leading to the Molo and Mandraccio, the ancient port. Outside there were the fields, soon filled with houses that were later on demolished and replaced with the 1900s business district around Piazza Dante. The door has always carried S. Andrea's name, from the church and the convent that were on the nearby hill, flattened to create via Dante.