Porta Palatina

The Palatine Gate is a Roman Age located in , Italy. The gate provided access through the city walls of Julia Augusta Taurinorum from the North side and, as a result, it constituted the Porta Principalis Dextra of the old town.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: building in Turin, Italy
  • Also known as: Palatine Towers

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Galleria Sabauda and Turin Cathedral.

Museum
Photo: gaspa, CC BY 2.0.
The Savoy Gallery is an art collection in the Italian city of , which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries. is situated 140 metres southeast of Porta Palatina.

Church
or Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral in , northern Italy. Dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It is the seat of the Archbishops of Turin. is situated 200 metres south of Porta Palatina.

Museum
The or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in , Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, with more than 30,000 artifacts, and is considered the second most important Egyptological collection in the world, after the . is situated 730 metres south of Porta Palatina.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porta Palazzo and Roman Quadrilateral.

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Porta Palatina

Latitude
45.07501° or 45° 4′ 30″ north
Longitude
7.68467° or 7° 41′ 5″ east
Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)
Open location code
8FQ93MGM+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 110678150
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­city_gate
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6697891
Wiki­data ID
Q1054755
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In Other Languages

From Arpitan to Spanish—“Porta Palatina” goes by many names.
  • Arpitan: Pôrta palatina
  • Chinese: 帕拉蒂内城门
  • Dutch: Palatine Towers
  • Egyptian Arabic: ابراج بلاتين
  • French: porte Palatine
  • French: Porte Palatine
  • German: Porta Palatina
  • Italian: Porta Palatina
  • Italian: Porte Palatine
  • Piemontese: Pòrta Palatin-a
  • Russian: Палатинские ворота
  • Slovenian: Palatinska vrata
  • Spanish: Puerta Palatina

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Porta Palatina”. Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.