Golden Gate

This was the landward entrance and the important one: the way down from the provincial capital came to this side, so it faced the direction traffic actually use…This was the landward entrance and the important one: the way down from the provincial capital came to this side, so it faced the direction traffic actually used rather than the water.

It opens onto the northern edge of the old quarter, where the crowds thin and the Roman stonework is easiest to read without a queue in front of it. Of the four original entrances this is the one that still looks like a gate rather than a doorway.