Porta Reale

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Whipped up by Neapolitan architect Orazio Angelini and erected in 1838, this neoclassical arch commemorates Noto's loyalty to Bourbon king Ferdinand II during an anti-monarchist revolt that broke out in Sicily in 1837. Symbolic figures adorn the arch, among them a greyhound representing loyalty to the Bourbons.

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