Carmine gate - Porta del Carmine is one of the best preserved gates of the ancient 13th century walls of Viterbo and is mentioned for the first time in 1290. Pope Urban V entered from this gate on 9 June 1367 on his symbolic journey in which he brought back the seat papal from Avignon to Rome.
The door appears with a double arch, a larger one in peperino and a smaller one in plastered stone. On the internal side, the one visible from the city center, you can admire a beautiful fresco of a Madonna and Child.
The door takes its name from the nearby church with convent of the Discalced Carmelites, an order of contemplative monks founded in the sixteenth century.
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