Porta Romana district
Porta Romana district is a quarter in Municipio 5, Milan, Lombardy. Porta Romana district is situated nearby to the quarter Scalo Romana, as well as near Porta Vigentina.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: downtown district in Milano, Italy
- Also known as: “Quartiere Porta Romana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porta Romana and Porta Romana.
Porta Romana
City gate
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Porta Romana is a former city gate of Milan, Italy. In its present form, the gate dates back to the 16th century Spanish walls of Milan. Its origins can be traced further back to the Roman walls of the city, which had a corresponding "Roman Gate" roughly in the same area.
Porta Romana
Metro station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Porta Romana is a station on Line 3 of the Milan Metro which opened on 16 December 1990 as part of the extension of the line from Duomo to Porta Romana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porta Vigentina and Quadronno district.
Porta Vigentina
Quarter
Porta Vigentina was one of the city gates in the Spanish walls of Milan, Italy; the gate has since been demolished, but the phrase "Porta Vigentina" is still used to refer to the district where the gate used to be.
South Milan
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
Southern Milan is chiefly a residential part of Milan. While you can find a couple of old landmarks in here, there aren't as much of them as in the Centro Storico, and this part of the city is more "local" and "ordinary".
Porta Romana district
- Categories: local identity nucleus of Milan, district, and locality
- Location: Municipio 5, Milan, Province of Milan, Grande Milano, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.45086° or 45° 27′ 3″ northLongitude
9.20546° or 9° 12′ 20″ eastElevation
118 metres (387 feet)Open location code
8FQFF624+85OpenStreetMap ID
way 404140232OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
12022848Wikidata ID
Q115135372
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Porta Romana district” goes by many names.
- French: “Quartier Porta Romana”
- Italian: “Porta Romana”
- Italian: “Quartiere Porta Romana”
- Lombard: “Quartée Porta Romana”
- Turkish: “Porta Romana district”
- “Porta Romana district”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Porta Romana and Scalo Romana.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gruppo Archeologico Milanese and Beth Shlomo.
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