Porta Vecchia
Porta Vecchia is the oldest city gate in the walls of Grosseto, located at the southern corner of the fortifications. Together with the Cassero Senese, it is one of the two surviving architectural elements from the 14th-century city walls, having endured the extensive reconstruction work carried out by the Medici in the late 16th century.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cassero del Sale and Bastione Cavallerizza.
Cassero del Sale
Historic building
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The Cassero del Sale is a 13th-century building in Grosseto, Tuscany. It is located in Piazza del Mercato, also known as Piazza del Sale, and was built to store the salt collected from the wetland areas of the region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grosseto and Porta Vecchia.
Grosseto
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Grosseto is a city and a comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, capital of the province of Grosseto. It is the most populous city of Maremma region and southern Tuscany.
Porta Vecchia
- Type: Gate
- Description: city gate in Grosseto, Italy
- Category: city gate
- Location: Province of Grosseto, Grosseto, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Italian—“Porta Vecchia” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Porta Vecchia”
- French: “Porta Vecchia”
- German: “Porta Vecchia”
- Italian: “Porta Vecchia”
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