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Typology: Monuments

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Address: Viale di Porta Tiburtina
Zone: Quartiere Tiburtino (Roma est)
Tra viale di Porta Tiburtina e via Tiburtina Antica (Porta Tiburtina)

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Porta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gateway in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city. Originally it was just a monumental archway, built in the Augustan age (5 BC) to allow the passage, above the Via Tiburtina, of a group of aqueducts (aqua Marcia, Tepula, Iulia). Between 270 and 275 the arch was incorporated into the Aurelian Walls. When Emperor Honorius restored and reinforced the walls (401-402), a new entrance was added in front of the older one, later destroyed by Pius IX in 1869. Thus the whole structure has a double architectural appearance: the Roman Republican one on the inside and the outer one with battlements and towers. In addition, the base of the outer gate is about one and a half metres higher than the base of the Augustan arch and the opening is not symmetrical to the latter.
The arch erected by Augustus, which now forms the inner side of the gate and is at a somewhat lower level than today's street level, is made entirely of travertine and is in an excellent state of preservation with Tuscan pilasters and the keystones decorated with bucrania.
The attic is crossed by three aqueducts and bears three inscriptions. The upper one, on the Aqua Iulia canal, dates back to the year the arch was built. In the middle, on the Aqua Tepula conduit, is the inscription dating to the restoration of Caracalla in 212. On the lower channel, that of the Aqua Marcia, there is an inscription celebrating the restoration ordered by Titus in 79. On the other side is the Honorian inscription commemorating the enlargement of the walls and the name of Flavius Macrobius Longinianus, prefect of Rome in 402, as curator of the work.

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