Porta Uzeda
Porta Uzeda is a gate in Italy. It belongs to a period of Italian gate-building, of which many examples survive in various states of preservation.…
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Porta Uzeda is a gate in Italy. It belongs to a period of Italian gate-building, of which many examples survive in various states of preservation.…
These are the scant remains of a Roman structure, though its original purpose is now stubbornly unclear. The surviving fragment is in a state of ruin,…
Porta Venezia, once called Porta Orientale and Porta Renza among other names, is one of Milan’s historic gates. Its present form dates from the 19th c…
This is a gate of substance, not just a hole in the wall. Porta Poschiavina stands on the northern side of the old fortifications, where the road once…
The fortifications of Noto Antica are a stern lesson in stone. Walled in local limestone, the circuit is built with an outer face of rough, unsquared …
Porta Mulino is a gate built into a three-storey building of nearly rectangular plan, its load-bearing walls rendered in plastered stone. A two-pitche…
The Cimitero di Castelmurato occupies the site of a former castle, built in the late fourteenth century as an outpost against incursions from neighbou…
Porta Tammaro is not a single gate but a small, ragged cluster of buildings on an irregular plan, rising mostly to two storeys. The load-bearing walls…
A fragment of Roman wall, part of an ancient gate, stands embedded in the modern fabric of Cosenza. One segment is now absorbed into the building hous…
A gate in Italy. These were once part of a defensive wall system. The type is common across many Italian towns from various periods.…
Porta Civita is a city gate like no other: not a freestanding arch, but a passage threaded through a fifteenth-century palazzo. The gate consists of t…
This is Casa Fisco, a gate that has long since abandoned any pretence of welcoming visitors. Its polygonal plan rises over two storeys in irregular st…
Gerace’s historic core is a tripartite affair, rising in distinct tiers from the low-lying Borgo Maggiore to the fortified Città Alta. The Borgo Maggi…
This is a medieval gate, one of the few surviving thresholds into a walled town that once bristled with fortifications. Its face is honest, unrendered…
Porta Palatina is a Roman gate in Turin, Italy. It dates from the Roman period. Gates of this type once formed part of the city’s defensive walls.…
At the edge of San Giovanni in Galilea, the medieval gate known as Mura survives in fragmentary form. Only the ruins of a great tower and stretches of…
The Mura di S. Carlo form part of Fermo’s third circuit of defensive walls, a layered system that once ringed the historic centre. This particular str…
Configurazione tronco-conica alla base e cilindrica nella parte superiore…
Circuito murario interno all'abitato con porte per consentire il passaggio, con struttura verticale portante…
Circuito murario formato da due porte e due torri, con struttura verticale portante…
Porta S. Maria is the principal gate of the old city, the necessary passage into the historic centre. It is a double-arched structure, its perimeter w…
A lone gate, severed from the demolished walls it once guarded, stands in Bitonto as an architectural fragment. It is a stout parallelepiped of stone,…
In the tangle of a narrow street, a modest urban gate catches the eye, a low, segmental arch set into a plastered rubble-stone wall. This is the Porte…
At the western edge of the old town, a curious architectural palimpsest: Porta Urbica Occidentale, a Roman city gate now folded into a later residenti…
The vaulted passage is part of a building of irregular plan, its load-bearing walls of plastered stone rubble under a double-pitched roof. Inside the …
Complesso edilizio in linea, corpo di forma poligonale, a ridosso della cinta difensiva originaria che ingloba a Sud una porta urbica, in conci di pie…
Along the road, the arches run in a hard, repeating rhythm: a sequence of semicircular vaults cut from squared tufa blocks, supported by pillars with …
At the southwestern edge of the old urban core, a blocky, rectangular building performs a neat piece of architectural doublespeak. Its ground floor is…
Caggiano’s historic core, a Roman-medieval settlement wrapped in tenth-century walls, clings to a rocky outcrop in a landscape as bare and stony as ne…
The ancient hill town of Acerenza, known to the Romans as Acheruntia, is a tight knot of stone, built for defence and perched high in the mountains of…
This is not a gate you pass through, but one you might walk straight into. The Porta urbica di San Biagio is a city gate absorbed into a tight cluster…
A gate in the defensive walls and bastions of Sabbioneta, in Italy. This is one of the fortified entrances to the ideal Renaissance city. Such gates t…
These fragmentary walls, standing along via dei Martiri, are a palimpsest of local building traditions. The visible masonry is conspicuously heterogen…
La cinta muraria è costituita da mura di grosso spessore realizzate in pietrame sbozzato e murato a corsi abbastanza regolari…
Fratte Rosa è arroccata sulla cima di un colle, con l’antico borgo cinto dal possente circuito delle mura urbiche, scarpate, in mattoni a vista…
Struttura difensiva del centro storico, integrate all'abitato, con struttura verticale portante…
On the edge of a small historic centre stands Porta Benevento, a gate of irregular L-shaped plan. Its load-bearing walls are built in opera incerta, r…
Fuscaldo’s medieval core huddles around a hilltop where the castle once stood, now only a few stubborn ruins remain. The old fortified citadel was ent…
Porta Bari, once known as Porta de Bari, was a principal gateway in the defensive walls of Altamura, a hilltop town in the region of Apulia. The city …
Centro costiero, ubicato in pianura e di origine antica. Il centro storico di Castro conserva quasi inalterato il suo aspetto medievale. L'area è circ…
Il suo sviluppo demografico e urbanistico fu modesto fino alla seconda metà del sec. XIX quando, superato il perimetro delle mura, ebbe luogo l'espans…
Morano Calabro A medieval map etched in stone. This hilltop town clings to its rocky spur with the tenacity of a fortress, its buildings rising in ti…
Porta Pié la Terra is a gate built into a three-storey building of trapezoidal plan, its load-bearing walls rendered in plastered stone. The whole str…
High on its hill, Gioi was built to be seen and to see. Its strategic position, commanding the Alento river valley and the distant sea at Velia, made …
At Manduria, the Parco Archeologico delle Mura Messapiche preserves a rare triple circuit of defensive walls, built between the fifth and third centur…
Of the three gates into the fortified settlement of Monte Vairano, the Porta Meridionale is the smallest. It consists of two square stone structures f…
la cinta muraria costituisce in alcuni tratti parete perimetrale di edifici successivamente addossati…
One of the gates in the medieval circuit of walls that once ringed the hill town, Porta S. Paolo is a sturdy, unadorned passage through time. It takes…
At the edge of a modern wall, a Roman gate endures in a state of eloquent ruin. Its floor plan is now illegible, the original form long since obscured…
The Malatestiane gate is a fragment of medieval fortification, now absorbed into the fabric of the town. Its wall presents a homogeneous curtain of re…
Porta di San Francesco is a gate of two halves, or rather two bodies of differing height. The taller left side, built in stone and brick, presents a s…
Porta S. Agata is the last surviving gate of the old communal walls, a modest but telling remnant of the medieval city’s defensive ambitions. It takes…
On the edge of the historic centre, a circuit of defensive walls holds the old town in a firm embrace. The Mura castellane are built of brick and sand…
At first glance, Via Nazario Sauro offers little hint of what lies beneath. The unremarkable modern street surface of via Trieste conceals a fragment …
PAESAGGIO URBANO: punti di vista sono Piazza S. Giorgio e il Castello. SISTEMA VIARIO: il percorso matrice è Corso Vittorio Emanuele ed il percorso di…
The old heart of Crotone, once the Greek Kroton and later the Roman Croto, is a place where the city’s layered history is written in its streets. The …
Cittadina costiera che affonda le radici nella tarda antichità. Lo stemma del comune di Agropoli, in modo singolare, ha una correlazione significativa…
The old gateway stands where Felitto’s medieval walls once met the road. In the Norman centuries, this hilltop village was a closed circuit of stone: …
Si segnalano due lapidi con iscrizioni: una su via Piana, l'altra sul bastione sulla via…
On the eastern side of the city’s perimeter, where the ground alone is nearly flat and slopes gently inward, stands Porta Vittoria, a gate that, even …
South of the baths, the area of Porta Marina was first noted in 1884 by Girolamo Rossi as a passage through the city walls, three metres high and 1.7 …
The first ring of walls at this site is no mere circuit of stone. It is a nine-pointed star, a geometry of defence laid out across the earth. Nine arr…
The gate at Gemmano is the only obvious breach in a circuit of walls that entirely encloses the old town. The Norman builders, working in a region whe…
These defensive walls trace an uneven course around the town’s historic core, built in the characteristic scarpa style, a sloping masonry base designe…
L'edificio presenta a pianta rettangolare e complessivamente si sviluppa per circa 1.100 mq di superficie per piano, per 3 piani oltre il sottotetto…
On Via Umberto I, an arched passageway cuts through a building of several storeys, its lower level a medieval gate now absorbed into the fabric of the…
On the north-east side of Monte Colombo, the old walls still stand, though they never fully enclosed the village. Instead, they run only along this on…
Porta S. Francesco is a gate, though one that has been shorn of its upper storeys. It presents a single arched opening, the arch itself a perfect semi…
Porta Rosa, a 4th-century BC construction, is the earliest known example of a full-centred arch in Italy. It was discovered within the Greek archaeolo…
Porta Venezia, once called Porta Orientale and other names, is one of Milan’s historic city gates. Its present form dates from the 19th century, but i…
An arch dedicated to Trajan on the Via Flaminia at Carsulae, also known as the Arco di San Damiano.…
On the Caelian Hill, at the northern corner of the Castra Peregrina, stands the Arcus Dolabellae et Silani. This gate, dating to A.D. 10, is likely a …
A triumphal arch erected in summa Sacra Via and dedicated to the deified emperor Titus by his brother Domitian, ca. 81 CE.…
The Arch of Gallienus stands as a modest remnant of the Porta Esquilina, one of the gates in Rome’s ancient Servian Wall. Here, the via Labicana and v…
In 16 CE, a single-bay triumphal arch was raised to Tiberius on the Sacra Via, at the northwest corner of the Basilica Julia. It commemorated the reco…
In the Velabrum, the old commercial quarter between the Palatine and Capitoline hills, stands the Arcus Argentariorum, a monument that began as a decl…
At the edge of the Forum Boarium, where Rome’s oldest cattle market met the Velabrum, stands a curious arch with four faces. The Ianus Quadrifrons is …
The Arch of Augustus at Ariminum was dedicated in 27 B.C. and marked the end of the Via Flaminia.…
At the northwest corner of the Forum Romanum, the Arch of Septimius Severus rises from the ancient pavement like a proclamation in stone. Dedicated in…
The so-called Arco di San Lazzaro is a stubborn remnant of a vaulted structure, now ruinous, that stands along Rome’s Via Marmorata. Its name is a med…
A fourth-century A.D. tetrapylon arch stands at the intersection of the Via Flaminia and a road linking the Via Tiberina and Veii.…
A first century A.D. gate at Verona, the point at which the Via Postumia entered the city.…
On the ancient Via Lata, the broad Roman road that traced the course of the present-day Via del Corso, once stood the Arcus Novus, a triumphal arch no…
A city gate in the form of a triumphal arch with three vaults. The gate marks the entry of the via Flaminia into the city.…
An arch erected to honor Trajan between A.D. 100 and 116.…
The Arch of Constantine at Rome, a triumphal arch dedicated in A.D. 315.…
The so-called "Arch of Drusus and Germanicus" at Spoleto.…
Mura di Terra del Sole is a Renaissance gate in Italy. It formed part of the fortifications of the planned town of Terra del Sole. The period's milita…
A gate in Italy, from the Renaissance period. It stands as a remnant of the era's fortifications and urban planning.…
The Mura Civiche is a gate in Italy, dating from the Early Christian period. It stands as a remnant of the city's fortifications from that era. Early …
A cinta muraria, a city gate, stands in Italy. It is a fortified entrance, typical of the many medieval and Roman walled towns across the region.…
Porta delle Chiavi is a Renaissance gate in Italy. It stands as a fortified entrance, typical of the period's emphasis on both civic pride and defensi…
A Renaissance gate in Italy, the Mura Giuoco del Pallone is a surviving section of the city’s fortifications. Gates of this period often combined defe…
A gate in the Renaissance style, the Mura Giuoco del Pallone stands in Italy. Its name suggests a connection to a ball game once played nearby, though…
Mura Urbane is a gate in Italy. It is a surviving urban entrance from the medieval or Renaissance period. Such gates often marked the boundary of a ci…
Porta Cremona is a gate in Italy. It is a surviving example of a city gate from a period when such structures marked both the physical and administrat…
Recinto del Ricetto is a Norman gate in Italy. Norman gates in this region typically served as fortified entry points within broader defensive systems…
Casa Via Porta Lodi 3 is a gate in Italy. Gates of this kind were once part of the city's defensive or administrative perimeter.…
Porta Brescia is a Roman gate in Italy. A surviving example of Roman urban fortification, it marks one of the ancient entrances to the city. Such gate…
Arco Trecchi is a gate in Italy. It stands as a formal entrance, a piece of architecture that once marked a boundary or controlled passage. Such gates…
Porta Garibaldi is a city gate in Italy. It stands as a reminder of the country’s 19th-century fortifications and urban planning.…
Corte Murata Nuova is a gate in Italy. Gates of this kind once controlled access to fortified settlements.…
Porta Nuova is a gate in Italy. It is a city gate, a type of structure that historically controlled access and defended urban perimeters.…
A modern gate in Italy, known as Portale Baddimanna/Filigheddu. It marks a point of passage in the landscape, typical of the region’s rural architectu…
The Arco della Pace is a city gate in Milan, Italy. It stands as a monumental arch, typical of the neoclassical triumphal arches built across Europe i…
The Mura difensive di San Clemente are a defensive gate in the town of San Clemente, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Such gates were once commo…
Porta Galliera is a city gate in Bologna, Italy. It is one of the surviving gateways from the medieval city walls. Such gates were once common defensi…
A gate in the twelfth-century Norman city walls. The type is common in Italy, where Norman fortifications often combined local building traditions wit…
Porta Milano is a gate in Italy. It is a city gate, a type of structure that once controlled access to a settlement.…
Porta di Vedano is a gate in Italy. Gates of this kind once marked the boundaries or controlled access to a settlement.…
A gate in Italy. Masseria Jesce is a fortified agricultural complex, and this gate marks its entrance. Such structures are typical of the region's rur…
A medieval gate, the Mura di cinta, stands in Italy. It once controlled access through the town’s defensive walls. Such gates were common in Italian m…
Porta Calcinara is a gate in Italy. It is a surviving example of a medieval city fortification. Such gates were once common defensive and administrati…
Casa Via Porta Pertusi 24 is a gate in Italy. It is a surviving example of a city gate, a type of structure that once controlled access and movement t…
A medieval gate in Italy. It is one of the many such fortified entrances that once controlled access to walled towns across the peninsula.…
Porta Urbana is a gate in Italy. It is a type of city entrance typical of the region's Roman or medieval fortifications.…
A gate in Catania, Sicily. It is a city gate. A common type of fortification entrance from its period.…
A gate and a pair of toll-houses in Milan. One of the city's medieval portals, it marks the historic route towards Pavia and the Ticino river.…
A Roman gate stands at Corso Federico II, 85. It is a surviving fragment of the city's ancient fortifications. Such gates marked the formal entries in…
This is a gate in Italy, part of a fortification system. Gates of this type were common defensive features in Italian urban centres.…
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