Porta Lombricese is the only one remaining of the four city gates that gave access to the Camaiore Castle, whose walls date back to 1374, and leads directly to Piazza San Bernardino, the current seat of the Municipality. Access was preceded by a drawbridge.
On the part of the arch that looks towards the Rivellino there are: on the side of the loophole, the coats of arms of the Municipality and of the Di Poggio family; above, a marble bas-relief of St. Peter - from whom the gate took its name in the 16th century - surmounted by the monogram of the Name of Jesus (1732).
In the internal part, the one facing the square, there is a seventeenth-century fresco depicting a Madonna with Child between Saints Benedict and Rocco and made over a previous fifteenth-century painting. The original fresco included only the Virgin with the baby Jesus in her arms, however it underwent numerous more or less valid remakes over time, and just as many reworkings.
The sundial, visible from Piazza San Bernardino, is an addition dating back to 1869.'
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