The Porta Latina (Latin - Latin Gate) is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome. It marked the Rome end of the Via Latina and gives...
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Giovanni a Porta Latina (Italian: "Saint John Before the Latin Gate") is a Basilica church in Rome, Italy, near the Porta Latina (on the Via Latina) of the...
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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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Another document dated 1474 states that the tender price for both Porta Latina and Porta Appia was ”39 florins, 31 solidi, 4 dinars for sextaria” (“biannual...
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Laterano Porta Asinaria – here begins the old via Tuscolana Porta Metronia Porta Latina – here begins via Latina Porta San Sebastiano (Porta Appia) –...
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southern section of the wall between Porta San Giovanni to the east and Porta Latina to the south. During the tenth century, beyond this gate was marshland...
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Celimontana Church of San Tommaso in Formis Porta Metronia Porta Latina Church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina Oratory of San Giovanni in Oleo Tomb of the...
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The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome...
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was made nearby to create the Porta San Giovanni. At this point, the Porta Asinaria was closed to traffic. Porta Latina – Gate of the Aurelian walls,...
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Porta Aurelia Pancraziana Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri Porta Clausa Porta Flaminia Porta Latina Porta Praenestina Porta Metronia Porta Nomentana Porta Ostiensis...
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a 1st-century CE Roman columbarium, situated near the Porta Latina on the Via di Porta Latina, Rome, Italy. It was discovered and excavated in 1831 by...
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He was made cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church for San Giovanni a Porta Latina in 1529. He was born in Gattinara, near Vercelli, modern Piedmont. Mercurino...
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Gerusalemme S. Eugenio S. Eustachio S. Francesca Romana S. Giovanni a Porta Latina S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini Ss. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Damaso...
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the porta Capena, went through a cutting in the clivus Martis, and left the city. For this stretch of the road, the builders used the Via Latina. The...
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Gerusalemme S. Eugenio S. Eustachio S. Francesca Romana S. Giovanni a Porta Latina S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini Ss. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Damaso...
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Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, wrestling with...
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Porta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after...
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Silanus. Porta Capena – this was the gate through which the via Appia left Rome to southern Italy after separating from the via Latina. Porta Naevia –...
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Giovanni in Oleo is a chapel adjacent to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. It commemorates the place where, according to legend, in 92...
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Gerusalemme S. Eugenio S. Eustachio S. Francesca Romana S. Giovanni a Porta Latina S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini Ss. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Damaso...
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Castello, the Porta Castelli, and a larger one, the principal gate through which emperors passed, near the church of St. Peregrino, called the Porta Peregrini...
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Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the...
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1578 and 1582. Its current facade was built by Giacomo della Porta and Girolamo Rainaldi. Porta did the completion of the façade of the Palazzo Senatorio...
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Gerusalemme S. Eugenio S. Eustachio S. Francesca Romana S. Giovanni a Porta Latina S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini Ss. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Damaso...
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Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber...
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the Latium adiectum and the Via Latina. The Via Latina started from Porta Capena in Rome, passing through the Porta Latina, then continued south-east, crossing...
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Porta can refer to: Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer Porta (surname), surname La Porta, a commune...
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Gerusalemme S. Eugenio S. Eustachio S. Francesca Romana S. Giovanni a Porta Latina S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini Ss. Giovanni e Paolo S. Lorenzo in Damaso...
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Villa of Livia (redirect from Villa at Prima Porta)
of Livia (Latin: Ad Gallinas Albas) is an ancient Roman villa at Prima Porta, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Rome, Italy, along the Via Flaminia. It...
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