o reach the dock of S.Maria the Staircase from the neighborhood of fishermen of the Suffrage, overcoming the gradient of over one hundred meters the Timpa, in Spanish epoch you/he/she was built a terraces run from the walk to serpentine, with ample ramps dug in it washes her/it and paved. To face the danger of the assaults from the pirates, adventurers or you equip hostile, true scourge of the populations of the place, the fortitude of the Touch was raised,

whose name derives from the hit of gun that warned to the necessity, of the intrusion of malicious.

Once the road of the Chiazzettes, whose name is probably owed to the presence, in every ramp, of a small plaza (chiazzetta) in plain, it came down without solution of continuity from the Suffrage, of which it represented a sort of layer. Today it is still possible to enter you, really from the same district, crossing however the government road 114, that it has been interposed among the the two lines of the ancient road.