Wall and City Gates

Porta Pinciana

Porta Pinciana was one of the minor gates and from time to time it was closed.Immediately outside the gate was Villa Borghese. It is a gate of the Aurelian…

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Porta S. Paolo

The gate built by Aurelianus in 275 A.D. is the internal one and has two passages. Thus the name of Trigemina was given to the gate because of the three…

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Porta San Sebastiano is the most southern gate in the Aurelian walls in Rome made in the 3th Century A.C. Formerly named Porta Appia because it was at the…
Port St. John owes its name to the neighboring basilica of St. John Lateran and, as can be seen in the photo above, consists of a large open arc in Aurelian…
Monument to the Bersaglieri soldiers. It was through an artillery-opened breach in the wall near the Porta Pia that on September 20, 1870 Bersaglieri soldiers…
Porta Pia is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after him. Situated at the end of a…
Porta S. Pancrazio was erected during the pontificate of Pope Urbanus VIII on the site of Porta Aurelia. It was the key gate of the new walls built to protect…
Small resturant across from the gate