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Porta San Paolo, Rome

The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, central Italy. The Ostiense Museum is housed within in the gatehouse. Just to the west is the Pyramid of Cestius, an Egyptian-style pyramid, and beyond that is the Protestant Cemetery.

 

The original name of the gate was Porta Ostiensis because it was located of the beginning of via Ostiense, the road that connected Rome and Ostia where functioned as its main gate.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_San_Paolo

 

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