Porta Latina

Coordinates: 41°52′35.0394″N 12°30′8.4564″E / 41.876399833°N 12.502349000°E / 41.876399833; 12.502349000
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Porta Latina
Porta Latina today
Porta Latina is located in Rome
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LocationRegio XII Piscina Publica
Coordinates41°52′35.0394″N 12°30′8.4564″E / 41.876399833°N 12.502349000°E / 41.876399833; 12.502349000
TypeCity gate
History
BuilderHonorius
Founded5th century A.D.
The Porta Latina in an 18th-century etching by Giuseppe Vasi.

The Porta Latina (

Latin - Latin Gate) is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome
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History

It marked the

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The gate's single arch is built of irregular blocks of travertine, with a row of five windows above on the outside, and a sixth in brick, at the south end, surmounted by stone battlements. The arch is flanked by two semi-circular towers of brick-faced concrete (almost entirely rebuilt, probably in the 6th century), which do not rise above the top of the central section. The north tower rests on masonry foundations that may have belonged to a tomb.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As in Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (Milan 1965), p. 388.
  2. ^ Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1716). L' Istoria della Chiesa di S. Giovanni avanti Porta Latina.
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Media related to Porta Latina (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by
Porta Asinaria
Landmarks of Rome
Porta Latina
Succeeded by
Porta Maggiore

This article contains text from Platner and Ashby's A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, a text now in the public domain.