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Porta San Sebastiano - Aurelian Walls, Rome by Nickmard Khoey Historical Archive

Porta San Sebastiano is the modern name for the ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, through which the Via Appia, now the Via di Porta San Sebastiano at that location, left the city in a southeasterly direction. It was refortified at the end of the 4th Century A.D. and was again renovated in the sixth century by Belisarius and Narses. The gate, a brick structure with turrets, still stands and has been restored to good condition. Modern traffic flows under it. Inside and upstairs is a museum dedicated to the construction of the walls and their recent restoration. The Aurelian Walls (Italian: Mura aureliane) is a line of city walls built between 271 and 275 in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman Emperors Aurelian and Probus.
Porta Sebastiana olim Porta Appia nominata est meridiem versus sita Romae ad Viam Appiam. Read further
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