Porta Aurelia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oct 02, 2025 02:05 PM
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A gate in the Aurelian Wall at the summit of the Ianiculum through which the Via Aurelia passes.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/732617291
41.8884375054, 12.46150556
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Porta San Pancrazio (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Porta San Pancrazio (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Porta Aurelia part of (physical/topographic) Aurelian Walls (unspecified date range)
- Porta Aurelia located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
The modern Porta S. Pancrazio replaced the Porta Aurelia in 1644, under the patronage of Urban VIII. That structure was subsequently damaged and removed during the 1849 siege of Rome, at which time the present gate was erected.
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Porta Aurelia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/732617291> [accessed: 05 December 2025]
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