This is Palazzo Montefusco (12th century), otherwise known as Palazzo Catena (Catena=Chain), because of the fact that once, the road that went through the gardens united it to its back part - palazzotto Montefusco. It was also closed off to passers-by with a chain. Since 1950 this path has been cut off by the artery of Via Libertà. Since then, therefore, the procidans have identified the structure on the port as “Palazzo Merlato” (“crenellated building”) and the building situated on the Canale (Canal) as "Palazzo Catena". The Canale is an ancient road that connected the port with the rest of the island it bear this name, because it once acted as a drainage duct for rain water. In the Canale, one can visit the eighteenth-century Palazzo Rosato with its marvellous architectural structure and the Church of S. Leonardo (end of the 16th century) outside which it is possible to see a votive aedicule devoted to the Madonna.

The port, that finishes on both sides in two beaches with a very clear sea, is around eight hundred metres long and is protected by about four cliffs which are also popular destinations for amateur fishermen and lovers looking for romantic walks. The first beach, where there is an ancient stairway that brings you to the sixteenth-century Tower of Tabaia, to Casale Vascello and then to Piazza dei Martiri in Corricella, is called the “Tongue” or the “Cross” because of the presence of a big rock of black lava stone upon which a cross is set in memory of an ancient shipwreck. The second beach, the “Le Grotte” (“The Caves") (because of the numerous caves dug into the tuff, used as deposits for boats or as warehouses), is also called the beach of “Cannone” (cannon) considering that, a few meters from the beach, there is a tiny islet where an ancient bombard is lodged. This acted as a sundial and indicated to the workers of the nearby boatyard when it was time to stop and start work by way of a shot.
Under the houses with the typical arched windows and under the tall balconies that look out over the sea (vefi), which are got to by characteristic staircases with unique long, narrow ramps, shops selling paranza fish, businesses, cafés, restaurants, pubs and pizzerias start to open, and transform the port from an unloading point into the most vivacious early-morning and evening meeting point of the island. Along the walk, particular attention should be paid to the two principal religious symbols for thousands of Procidan seafarers: the wooden Crucifix, dated 1845, and the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, erected in 1760 upon a 7th century chapel, also called Chiesa dei Marinai (Church of the Sailors) because it was founded by the “Pio Monte dei Marinai”, an association for the assistance of the sailors and their families.

The beautiful, great piazza in front of the Church, host of almost all the folkloristic events of the island, represents the border between the commercial port and the tourist port. Here you can catch sight of the island's only cinema, which is ultramodern. The Procida Hall and the glorious nautical institute "Francesco Caracciolo" (the most ancient in Europe, it being 170 years old) in which one can find the Museum of Sea. A few meters before, at number 10, there was the "Victory Hotel" that had as one of its guests Alphonse de Lamartine, the author of the novel Graziella, who was the heroin daughter of procidan fishermen, and which has become a typical image of the beauty of the island.