However, there are different interpretations on the real construction of the door, a free hypothesis is that it was opened not in the time proposed by Casulli (the most important historian of Putignano), this seems to be confirmed in the minutes of the meeting of the University Council, the 'then municipal administration, in the autumn of 1726. In that council the Mayor in office during the period, dr. Giovanni Camillo Marascelli, proposed the urgent need to open another door to make the movements of the inhabitants more comfortable, unanimously accepted by the Councilors. The latter, in order not to hurt the bailiff's susceptibility, hastened to specify that they would be content with even a small door, just enough to allow a single person to pass.

 

Such conjectures in themselves would have nothing to mean, if the diligent Chancellor had not scrupulously noted, reporting the precise words of Marascelli that the new door could have been opened as a first hypothesis at the end of "via delli Seriy" or else where "the Marascelli house was located, facing the road to Castellana". This is the clarification that raises doubts about the reality of the facts. Indeed, the "via delli Seriy" is none other than today's via Serio and which is located a short distance from Porta Barsento. This conjecture could mean that at least in 1726, the Barsento Gate still did not exist, otherwise the opening of a new door at such a short distance from the existing one would not be explained.

 

There are, in contrast to thought, clear signs of the presence of an access / exit from the town towards Alberobello / Barsento, in fact the date 1747 is only the date of construction of the current arch, but does not exclude the existence of a door or at least of a previous passage.

 

Porta Barsento is already mentioned in the testament of the notary Fanelli, dating back to 1590, when he writes to "make a sewer that goes through the door of the earth" that is a sewer pipe that goes outside the walls from the convent of the Discalced Carmelites (Convento Grande) of boundary. Even the position of the convent of San Domenico, built right there in front as early as 1660, suggests that the Barsento Gate already existed, otherwise the choice made by the Dominicans in building a convent near the urban agglomeration, but far from an access door.

 

The Mayor Marascelli in 1726 was already thinking of the third Porta di Putignano which will then be built, at the expense of his family, exactly the following century. Therefore, since there is no contrary indication, this current of thought confirms that Porta Barsento dates back to the time of the construction of the ancient wall itself (1474) commissioned by the bailiff Giovanni Battista Carafa. A further testimony is the width of the road far greater than the right and left parallels which instead ended on the wall.