Porta Palatina
The Palatine Gate is a Roman Age city gate located in Turin, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: building in Turin, Italy
- Also known as: “Palatine Towers”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Galleria Sabauda and Turin Cathedral.
Galleria Sabauda
Museum
Turin Cathedral
Church
Photo: Eccekevin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Turin Cathedral or Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Turin, northern Italy. Dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It is the seat of the Archbishops of Turin. Turin Cathedral is situated 200 metres south of Porta Palatina.
Museo Egizio
Museum
Photo: Ysogo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museo Egizio or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in Turin, 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 Egyptian Museum of Cairo. Museo Egizio is situated 730 metres south of Porta Palatina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porta Palazzo and Roman Quadrilateral.
Porta Palatina
- Categories: city gate, archaeological site, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Centro - Crocetta, Turin, Province of Turin, Piedmont, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.07501° or 45° 4′ 30″ northLongitude
7.68467° or 7° 41′ 5″ eastElevation
238 metres (781 feet)Open location code
8FQ93MGM+2VOpenStreetMap ID
way 110678150OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=city_gateOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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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.