Porta Borsari
Verona, Italy
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Porta Borsari is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy, dating to the 1st century AD, though built over an earlier 1st-century BC structure and reconstructed again in 265 AD under Emperor Gallienus. Originally called Porta Iovia for its proximity to a temple of Jupiter lustralis, the gate served as the city's main entrance, with the Via Postumia passing through as the decumanus maximus. The monument was richly decorated and originally featured an inner court, now vanished. Built in local white limestone, the façade displays two arches flanked by semi-columns with Corinthian capitals supporting an entablature and pediment; above rises a two-story wall with twelve arched windows, some set within niches topped by triangular pediments. The current name derives from the bursarii, the guard soldiers who collected the dazio toll.
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- city gate
- Heritage
- Italian national heritage
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- Verona, Italy
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