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    The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). Originally known as the...
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    fortification until the 19th century. The Museo delle Mura near the Porta San Sebastiano offers information on the walls' construction and how the defenses...
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    martyr. It is located near Casina del Cardinal Bessarione on Via di Porta San Sebastiano and the beginning of the Appian Way. The present church was constructed...
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    Rome, Italy. It is housed in the first and second floors of the Porta San Sebastiano at the beginning of the Appian Way. It provides an exhibition on...
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    stretch of straight road in Europe, totaling 62 km (39 mi). Porta Appia (Porta San Sebastiano), the gate of the Aurelian Walls Church of Domine Quo Vadis...
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    by the side of the road behind a wall at numbers 9 and 12 Via di Porta San Sebastiano, Rome, where it can be visited by the public for a small admission...
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    small church southeast of Rome. It is located about some 800 m from Porta San Sebastiano, where the Via Ardeatina branches off the Appian Way, on the site...
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    Italy, close to the First Mile of the Appian Way and next to the Porta San Sebastiano. Long misidentified, it is most likely the remains of the Arch of...
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  • Porta San Sebastiano Porta Asinaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome Porta Borsari, a Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. Porta Capena...
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    fornici were opened at its sides, which can still be seen today. Porta San Sebastiano – Gate of the Aurelian walls, a landmark of Rome, Italy Quercioli...
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    between Porta Metronia and Porta San Sebastiano. To the south, it borders with San Saba (R. XXI), from which is separated by Via di Porta San Sebastiano, Piazzale...
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    “Grenadiers” had been reduced to the Aurelian Walls, near Porta San Paolo, Porta San Sebastiano and Porta San Giovanni. The extreme resistance was fueled by the...
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    the Regional Park. Noted monuments along the route include Porta Appia (Porta San Sebastiano), the gate of the Aurelian Walls, the Tomb of Priscilla, the...
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    and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) on the redecoration of the Porta San Sebastiano at Rome as a triumphal arch (5 April 1536) in honour of Charles V...
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    San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian outside the Walls), or San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas (Saint Sebastian at the Catacombs), is a minor basilica...
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    Aurelian Walls between Porta San Sebastiano and Porta Ardeatina...
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    together with partial remains elsewhere. These are mostly city gates, like the Porta Nigra in Trier or Newport Arch in Lincoln. Hadrian's Wall was built by the...
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    in Rome Porta Maggiore, in Rome Porta Pinciana, in Rome Porta Tiburtina, in Rome Porta San Sebastiano, in Rome Porta San Paolo, in Rome Porta Camollia...
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  • the Porta Fontinalis (in present-day Rome, to the northeast of the Altare della Patria). A monumental portico built in 193 BC connected the Porta Fontinalis...
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    this part of the city, which was situated just inside the Roman walls near Porta Romana. By the early medieval period, a hospital was built adjacent to this...
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    mentioned in 518. In Rome, the Byzantine general Flavius Belisarius put Porta San Sebastiano under the saint's protection in 527. In Sakkaia, Syria, in 549, the...
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    restauro II: esperienze a San Luigi dei Francesi e San Nicola dei Lorenesi (Firenze: Alinea, 2009). Sebastiano Roberto, San Luigi dei Francesi: la fabbrica...
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    Terme di Caracalla, Piazzale Numa Pompilio and Via di Porta San Sebastiano. To the south, San Saba borders with quartieri Ardeatino (Q. XX) and Ostiense...
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    of Pope Paul V: as a Roman condottiere, Colonna entered through Porta San Sebastiano and arrived at the basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli passing through...
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    The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum...
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  • Tarquinia. He spent months in the Catacomb of Callixtus, outside of Porta San Sebastiano, working under candle-light and drawing sepulchral inscriptions and...
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    on the right bank of the Tiber (the other ones are Porta Portuensis, no longer extant, and Porta San Pancrazio), that rises just in the place where it...
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    Separated from Via Appia Antica, in the stretch from the Aurelian Walls (Porta San Sebastiano) to Via Cecilia Metella Separated from the entire Via di Tor Carbone...
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    San Giovanni Battista. He painted for the churches of Letto and of the Monks of San Sebastiano. He painted another Annunciation for the church of San...
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    The Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered...
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