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One of the city’s oldest gates, adjacent to the Church of Sant’Antonio di Padova. Also called Porta Vicari, one of the city’s oldest gates, named after the praetor Francesco del Bosco, Count of Vicari.

Porta Sant’Antonino

Natoli: Mercato della foglia, as the Vucciria market was then called, where greens, vegetables, and fruit were sold, so as to distinguish it from the mercato della carne in Piazza San Onofrio, where the slaughterhouse was located. AC, 234.

the nearby market