Porta Viminalis
The Porta Viminalis was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome . It was located in the northeast section of the city wall in the middle of the heavily fortified part known as the agger . It was named after the Viminal hill on which it stood. Within the city, the vicus Patricius led to the Porta Viminalis. The name of the road that led from this gate into the surrounding area and for which a gate south of the Praetorian camp was set up when the Aurelian Wall was built is not known; it could have been a branch of the Via Tiburtina .
Remains of the Porta Viminalis are preserved in today's Piazza dei Cinquecento at the Stazione Termini .
literature
- Filippo Coarelli: Rome. An archaeological guide . Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 22, 29, 214-215, 242, 247.
- Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : Porta Viminalis . In: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 419.
Remarks
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 9 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 4 ″ E