Gates
List of gates (porte), from the northernmost and clockwise:
- Porta del Popolo (Porta Flaminia) – here begins via Flaminia
- Porta Pinciana
- Porta Salaria – here begins via Salaria
- Porta Pia – here begins the new via Nomentana
- Porta Nomentana – here began the old via Nomentana
- Porta Praetoriana – old entrance to Castra Praetoria, the camp of the Praetorian Guard
- Porta Tiburtina – here begins via Tiburtina
- Porta Maggiore (Porta Praenestina) – here three aqueducts meet, and via Praenestina begins
- Porta San Giovanni – near Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
- Porta Asinaria – here begins the old via Tuscolana
- Porta Metronia
- Porta Latina – here begins via Latina
- Porta San Sebastiano (Porta Appia) – here begins the Appian Way
- Porta Ardeatina
- Porta San Paolo (Porta Ostiense) – next to the Pyramid of Cestius, leading to Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura, here via Ostiense begins
Gates in Trastevere (from the southernmost and clockwise):
- Porta Portuensis
- Porta Aurelia Pancraziana
- Porta Septimiana
- Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri
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“We’ve cracked the hemispheres with careless hand!
Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood
Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
Whelms us to the tired world where tasseling corn,
Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
Rot on the vine: in the land were we born.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers—his hopes.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Go through the gates with closed eyes.
Stand erect and let your black face front the west.”
—Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)