Places
- La Porta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica
- Porta (Barcelona) a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain
- Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France
- Porta (Xanthi), Greece, a district of Xanthi in Thrace, northeastern Greece
- Porta, the Hungarian name for Poarta village, Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania
- Porta del Sol, a tourism region in western Puerto Rico
- Porta Littoria, the name applied from 1939 to 1946 for the town of La Thuile in the Valle d’Aosta, Italy
- Porta Westfalica in Germany
- Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany
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