Porta Nuova (Milan)
With Porta Nuova two different gates of the former city fortifications of the northern Italian city are Milan referred, a medieval gate and a classicist from the early 19th century.
The medieval Archi di Porta Nuova
The two arches of the New City Gate represent one of the three Romanesque city gates still preserved in the course of the medieval city walls of Milan . With its double arch, this older Porta Nuova marks the end of today's Via Alessandro Manzoni towards Piazza Cavour. The gate was built in 1176 and redesigned between 1330 and 1339 on the outward side of the city with stripe incrustations and a relief of the Madonna with saints. Gravestones from Roman times, the origin of which is no longer known, have been placed on the inside. The side passages for pedestrians date from the 19th century.
The classical Porta Nuova
900 meters to the north, where the Porta Nuova to the Piazzale Principessa Clotilde flows, originated from 1810 to 1813 over the former Spanish fortifications which also Porta Nuova called gate system by Giuseppe Zanoia. A tall, single-axis archway in Corinthian order is flanked by two low customs posts decorated in the simpler Doric style .
At this point the 40 km long Naviglio della Martesana ended , a traffic and irrigation canal built in 1460 and filled in in 1870.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 19.5 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 41.7" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Schomann : Kunstdenkmäler im western Upper Italy , Darmstadt 1987, p. 410.
- ^ Heinz Schomann: Lombardy. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, p. 230.