Everything about The Porta San Paolo totally explained
The
Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the
3rd century Aurelian Walls of
Rome. The
Ostiense Museum is housed within in the gatehouse. Just to the west is the
Pyramid of Cestius, an
Egyptian-style
pyramid, and beyond that's the
Protestant Cemetery.
History
The gatehouse is flanked by two cylindrical towers, and has two entrances, which had been covered by a second, single-opening gate, built in front of the first by
Belisarius (
530s–
540s).
The structure is due to
Maxentius, in the
4th century, but the two towers were heightened by
Honorius. Its original name was
Porta Ostiensis, since it opened on the way to
Ostia. Later it changed its name to
Porta San Paolo, because it was the exit of Rome that led to the
St. Paul basilica outside the walls.
In
549, the Rome was under siege; the
Ostrogoths of
Totila entered through this gate, because of the treason of the Isaurian garrison. On
10 September 1943, two days after the
armistice between the
Allies and
Italy had been agreed, Italian military and civil forces tried to block
German seizure of the city, with 570 casualties.
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