This district takes its name from the ancient temple of San Michele Arcangelo, celebrated on the 29 September, also portrayed in the coat of arms that features the Archangel image or only two wings and a sword.The colour is red, like the flaming sword of the warrior angel, or of the fire lighted with the wood carried in town through this door, facing north. From this north facing gate departed the highroad towards the northern territory, via della Lungara, today corso Garibaldi.The borough has developed during the XIII Century between the Arco Etrusco and the Convent of Monte Ripido, being in the end included in the walls of the first decades if the XIV Century. Notwithstanding the modern transformation, it has kept his original characteristics of civil and religious housing residence area.