Porta Ticinese
Porta Ticinese is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. The gate, facing south-west, was first created with the Spanish walls of the city, in the 16th century, but the original structure was later demolished and replaced in the early 19th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Gate
- Description: former city gate of Milan, Italy
- Also known as: “Arco di Porta Ticinese”, “Porta Cicca”, and “Porta Marengo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio and Portinari Chapel.
Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio
Church
Photo: Geobia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio is a church in Milan in northern Italy, which is in the Basilicas Park city park. It was for many years an important stop for pilgrims on their journey to Rome or to the Holy Land, because it was said to contain the tomb of the Three Magi or Three Kings. Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio is situated 200 metres northeast of Porta Ticinese.
Portinari Chapel
The Portinari Chapel is a Renaissance chapel at the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, northern Italy. Commenced in 1460 and completed in 1468, it was commissioned by Pigello Portinari as a private sepulchre and to house a silver shrine given by Archbishop Giovanni Visconti in 1340 containing the relic head of St. Portinari Chapel is situated 240 metres northeast of Porta Ticinese.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ticinese and Porta Genova.
Porta Genova
Suburb
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Porta Genova is a neighborhood of Milan, Italy, located within the Zone 6 administrative division. The name "Porta Genova" means "Genoa gate"; the district is named after a city gate of the old Spanish Walls of Milan, namely that leading to Genoa, that used to be in what is now Piazza Cantore.
Porta Ticinese
- Categories: city gate and tollbooth
- Location: Municipio 5, Milan, Province of Milan, Grande Milano, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Porta Ticinese” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Porta Ticinese”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورتا تيسينيزى”
- French: “Porta Ticinese”
- Hungarian: “Porta Ticinese”
- Italian: “Arco e caselli di Porta Ticinese”
- Italian: “Porta Cicca”
- Italian: “Porta Marengo”
- Italian: “porta Ticinese”
- Italian: “Porta Ticinese”
- Lombard: “Porta Cicca”
- Polish: “Porta Ticinese”
- Sardinian: “Arco di Porta Ticinese”
- Spanish: “Porta Ticinese”
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