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    Porta Romana is one of the portals in the medieval Walls of Siena. It is located on Via Cassia in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. The gate exits near...
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    The Porta Romana, once known as the Porta San Pier Gattolino was the southernmost gate in the 13th-century walls of the Oltrarno section of Florence,...
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    The Porta dei Pìspini or Gate of the Water-spout is one of the portals in the medieval walls of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located on the...
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    as well as two large fragmentary frescoes from the city gates of Porta Romana and Porta Pispini: a Coronation of the Virgin by Sassetta and Sano di Pietro...
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  • countryside. In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose representatives race on horseback in the Palio di Siena, run twice every year...
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    Agnolo and Agostino in several commissions from the commune of Siena, including the Porta Romana and the Torre del Mangia; his collaboration at the construction...
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    Monteriggioni (category Municipalities of the Province of Siena)
    portals or gates. One gate, the Porta Fiorentina opens toward Florence to the north, and the other, the Porta Romana, faces Rome to the south. The main...
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    Porta Romana took about two hours (1 1/2 hours from San Casciano in Val di Pesa). In 1917 SITA began running regular bus routes on the Florence-Siena...
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    Florence multiple times, once appearing at the Porta Romana in Florence with a band of men, who left for Siena after it appeared that Florentines would not...
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    The Bottini di Siena are a complex system of medieval underground aqueducts for the water supply of the city of Siena with a total length of 25 kilometres...
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    village since 13th century. The walls have three gates: Porta di San Giorgio, Porta Romana and Porta Grossetana. (in Italian) Popolazione residente - Grosseto...
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    Colombo. 21 aprile 1970, Roma, Tipografia Operaia Romana, 1970 Passeggiata sulle mura. Da Porta Latina a Porta San Sebastiano e Museo delle Mura, fino ai fornici...
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    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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    1162 by Emperor Frederick I. Bas-relief Porta Romana, Milan (1171) Lombard milites depicted on the Porta Romana relief of 1171 A Bronze replica of the...
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  • Lorenzo Collacchioni (category Siena FC SSD players)
    joined Eccellenza Tuscany club Porta Romana. However, in the same transfer window, he was signed by Serie D club Siena. After retiring as a player, Collacchioni...
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    Stefano di Giovanni (category Painters from Siena)
    pneumonia contracted while decorating the Assumption fresco on the Porta Romana of Siena. The work was finished by his pupil Sano di Pietro. Many consider...
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  • Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia or Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, founded in 1810 The Pontificia Accademia Romana di San Tommaso di Aquino...
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    Milano Porta Garibaldi (IATA: IPR) is a major railway station in the Italian city of Milan, located just to the north of the neighbourhood known as Porta Garibaldi...
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  • Giovanni Becatti (category People from Siena)
    1973) was an Italian Classical art historian and archaeologist. Born at Siena, Becatti was educated at the University of Rome under Giulio Giglioli. Becatti...
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    attested as a gentile in an inscription from Chiusi, in the province of Siena. An Etruscan presence is found archaeologically from the late Villanovan...
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    originally had six gates: Porta Fura, Porta del Pontone, Porta Santa Martina (o Portella), Porta Lucia, Porta Romana, and Porta Napoletana. In the 16th...
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    The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilisation beginning with the overthrow of...
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    ascribed to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva (possibly due to interpretatio romana). The church is located in Piazza della Minerva one block east the Pantheon...
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    Piazza Colonna and the Via del Corso, was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta. On 28 January 1578, the consistorial lawyer Pietro Aldobrandini, brother...
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    adherence to classical plasticity was sought, as in the decoration of the Porta della Mandorla (1391-1397, then 1404-1406 and later) of the Cathedral, by...
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    as the little church of San Biagio de Mercato and the underlying "Insula Romana") - were discovered in the 1930s. At first the church followed the Greek...
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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...
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    many of the neighbouring lands and cities— Foligno, Assisi, Spoleto, Todi, Siena, Arezzo, etc. In 1186, Henry VI, rex romanorum and future emperor, granted...
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    (1431) Santa Maria di Loreto (1507) Santa Maria in Porta Paradisi (rebuilt in 1523) Santa Caterina da Siena a Via Giulia (1526) Santa Maria dell'Orto (1567)...
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    Colonna, while the central feature is the fountain designed by Giacomo della Porta and realized in 1589 by Andrea Brasca, Pietro Gucci and Pace Naldini. The...
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