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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German occupation of Rome (section Porta San Paolo)
“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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