Etymology

Scala Nuova

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Borrowed from the Italian name given to it by Genoese and Venetian traders in the Middle Ages, literally “new port” (equivalent to modern Italian scalo nuovo).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.