Bove gate - Porta Bove or Bonaventura gate is no longer accessible as it was incorporated into a private house and opens in correspondence with a square-plan tower which today ends with a flat roof without merlons.
There are two hypotheses for its name: the first is that the door dates back to 1215 when a certain Bovo Oddonis Bovonis was mayor. The second hypothesis is that it is a tribute to the senator and cardinal Bonaventura Papareschi, in office as mayor in 1255 when the door was opened, whose coat of arms is carved in the door.
The story of Cardinal Bonaventura is also told in the epigraph found on the outside of the door, where the stories of the city are generally told to the visitor. Near the coat of arms you can recognize the slits through which the winches for closing the doors with the drawbridge passed.
Another epigraph on one side of the door recalls a first restoration of 1290 by the mayor Rinaldo.
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