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“Salita dell’Annuziata” takes its name from the church “S.Maria dell’Annunziata” (13th century), located at the cross road with the “Foro Severiano Way”. It was the parish Church of the walled-up village out of the lost “Porta Albina”. The church, now municipal property, conserves a charmed bell tower(its bronze bell is conserved at the Civic Museum) and an elegant stoned portal with a wonderful carved architrave, decorated with a plant volute frieze indicating the name of the author. “Salita dell’Annunziata” was the link, in ancient times, of the historic town with the new one and with the harbour, in the Middle Age the historic town to the village, and in the 18th century, the historic town to “Borgo Pio” and to the renovated harbour. It’s a tiring slope, but once arrived up there, it’s possible to regain energy drinking from the fountain in “Piazza Domitilla”, enjoying the wonderful façade of “Palazzo della Bonifica” (seat, at the end of the 18th century, of the Land Reclamation Authority, it’s been recently renovated), next to the monumental “Leoni Funerari” (i cavallucci), attraction for the kids. The slope is now a little bit sweeter until “Piazza Municipio”, passing near the remains of the four face arch, where it’s clearly visible the basolato (a particular kind of stone from volcanic rocks) of the Appian Way, that continues on the edges of the square.