| Constructed close to the homonymous gateway to the city, coming from the Adriatic. The gate was demolished during the second half of the nineteenth century.
"As stated in an inscription on the front door, this little church was originally built without any criteria, so that soon it would fall. But prosecutor Don Giuseppe Muzii had it down and rebuild in 1774. Perhaps it was built after the plague the 1656 vote of gratitude to the survivors, who, following the example of other neighboring countries, began to raise churches, chapels, shrines, etc.. in honor of St. Rocco to the doors of individual countries, as if they intended to bring the faithful, the Holy thaumaturge to guard and defend against the return of the plague " |