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Porta (rapper) Christian Jiménez Bundo (born 2 July 1988 in Barcelona), known professionally as Porta, is a Spanish rapper. He achieved his initial popularity primarily over the Internet, distributing his music directly to fans on social media networks rather ...
(born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer * Bernardo Porta (1758–1829), Italian composer active in France * Bianca Della Porta (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey and rugby player * Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect *
Costanzo Porta Costanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – 19 May 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher, and had ...
(1528–1601), Italian composer of the Renaissance * Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602), Italian sculptor and architect * Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan physician and playwright * Giovanni Porta (1675–1755), Italian composer * Hugo Porta (born 1951), Argentine rugby union footballer * Livio Dante Porta (1923–2003), Argentine engineer *
Luigi Porta Luigi Porta (4 January 1800 – 10 September 1875) was an Italian surgeon and professor at the University of Pavia. He pioneered the field of vascular surgery and noted collateral circulation following ligation of arteries. Porta was born in Pavia ...
(1800–1875), Italian surgeon * Miquel Porta (born 1957), Spanish epidemiologist and scholar * Richard Porta (born 1983), Uruguayan Australian footballer


Places

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La Porta La Porta (, ; co, A Porta d'Ampugnani) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. La Porta is situated in the heart of the ''Castagniccia'', of which this is the largest settlement. It formed the gateway ('' ...
, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica *
Porta (Barcelona) Porta is a neighborhood in the ''Nou Barris'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Lat ...
a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain * Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France *
Porta, Thessaly Pyli ( el, Πύλη) is a municipality in the Trikala regional unit, Greece. Situated 18 km west of Trikala, right at the bottom of two mountains Itamos, and Koziakas, which mark the beginning of the Pindos mountainline, Pyli marks the entra ...
, a pass and settlement in Thessaly, central Greece * Porta, Xanthi, 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 La Thuile ( Valdôtain: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley of northwest Italy. Geography La Thuile is located in the Alps at the extreme north-west of the country, close to the French alpine town of La Rosière. The town is crosse ...
, 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 The Porta Nigra (Latin for ''black gate'') is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is today the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps. It was designated as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in ...
in Trier, Germany


Convents

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Porta Coeli (Moravia) Porta coeli ("Heaven's Gate" in Latin) is a 13th-century convent (women monastery) located in Předklášteří, near Tišnov, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, after which the asteroid 3276 Porta Coeli is named. Situated in the valley of t ...
, in the Czech Republic, a convent from 1239 after which an asteroid is named *
Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico) Porta Coeli ('Gateway to Heaven') Convent church, or El Convento de Santo Domingo de Porta Coeli in Spanish, is one of the oldest church structures in the western hemisphere, located in San Germán, Puerto Rico. History In 1609, the Dominican O ...
, in San Germán, Puerto Rico


Railway stations

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Porta Alpina (from Romansh: Alpine Gate) was a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, serving the Alpine village of Sedrun in Switzerland. It was intended to promote tourism and the economy in the region of Graub ...
, a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern Switzerland *
Porta Nuova, Turin Torino Porta Nuova railway station is the main railway station of Turin, northern Italy. It is the third busiest station in Italy for passenger flow after Rome Termini and Milan Central, with about 192,000 journeys per day and 70 million ...
, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy * Verona Porta Nuova railway station, in Verona, northern Italy *
Porta Susa Torino Porta Susa is a railway station in Turin, northern Italy; it is the second busiest mainline station in the city, after Torino Porta Nuova. It is located in ''Corso Inghilterra''. History The station was built in 1868 during the expansi ...
, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy *
Porta Gia Ton Ourano "Porta Gia Ton Ourano" ( el, Πόρτα Για Τον Ουρανό; en, Door to the Sky) is a song recorded by Greek pop singer Helena Paparizou and the first single from ''Vrisko To Logo Na Zo''. ''MAD TV'', May 11, 2008. Retrieved on April 19 ...
, a song recorded by Greek pop singer Elena Paparizou


City gates

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Porta Appia The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). History Originally known as the Porta Appia, the gate sat astride the Appian Way, the ''regina viarum'' (queen of th ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, now known as the Porta San Sebastiano * Porta Asinaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Borsari Porta Borsari is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. It dates to the 1st century AD, though it was most likely built over a pre-existing gate from the 1st century BC. An inscription dating from emperor Gallienus' reign reports anoth ...
, a Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. * Porta Capena, a gate in the Servian Wall near the Caelian Hill, in Rome * Porta Capuana, an ancient city gate in Naples, southern Italy * Porta Collina, a gate at the north end of the Servian Wall of Rome *
Porta de Santiago A Famosa ( ms, Kota A Famosa; "The Famous" in Portuguese, also known as ''Fortaleza Velha'' Portuguese: the old fortress, and Dutch: ''Slavenburgh'' (slave castle) & ''De Misericorde'' (Our Lady of Mercy, from French: ''Notre Dame de Misér ...
, a small gate house and the only remaining part of the A Famosa fortress in Malacca, Malaysia * Porta Decumana, the back gate of a Roman ''castrum'' * Porta Esquilina, a gate in the Servian Wall of Rome *
Porta Flaminia The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio. History The previous name was ''Porta Flaminia'', because the consular Via Flaminia p ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Latina The Porta Latina (Latin - ''Latin Gate'') is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome. History It marked the Rome end of the Via Latina and gives its name to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina. Most of the present str ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Leoni Porta Leoni (Gate of the Lions) is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. The gate was built during the Roman Republic by P. Valerius, Q. Caecilius, Q. Servilius and P. Cornelius, and restructured in imperial times. It was connected to ...
, an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy * Porta Liviana, a medieval gate in the walls of Padua, Italy * Porta Maggiore, or Porta Prenestina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Nigra The Porta Nigra (Latin for ''black gate'') is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is today the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps. It was designated as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in ...
, in Trier, Germany * Porta Nomentana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Ognissanti (Padua) The Walls of Padua (Italian: ''cinta muraria di Padova'') are a complex of defensive works around the Italian city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases. Phases Roman Of the walls built during the ancient ...
, a gate in the walls of Padua *
Porta Ostiensis The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum (') is housed within the gatehouse. It is in the Ostiense quarter; just to the west is the Roma ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Pia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Pinciana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Portese, a gate in the seventeenth-century Janiculum Walls of Rome *
Porta Portuensis Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber in the southern edge of the Rione Trastevere of Rome, Italy. History The gate was built in 1 ...
(or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Praetoria Porta can refer to: People * Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer * Bernardo Porta (1758–1829), Italian composer active in France * Bianca Della Porta (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey and rugby ...
, the main gate of a Roman ''castrum'' * Porta Praenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Prenestina The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via P ...
(or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Giovanni (Padua) The Walls of Padua (Italian: ''cinta muraria di Padova'') are a complex of defensive works around the Italian city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases. Phases Roman Of the walls built during the ancient ...
, a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Salaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Giovanni (Rome) Porta San Giovanni is a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, Italy, named after the nearby Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. History It is made up of a single grand arch built for Pope Gregory XIII in ''opera forse'' by Giacomo della Porta ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Giovanni (San Gimignano) San Gimignano () is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of ...
, a gate in the walls of San Gimignano *
Porta San Giovanni (Padua) The Walls of Padua (Italian: ''cinta muraria di Padova'') are a complex of defensive works around the Italian city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases. Phases Roman Of the walls built during the ancient ...
, a gate in the walls of Padua *
Porta San Lorenzo Porta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city. History The gate originally was an arch, built under Augustus, in the point in which three aqueducts (Aq ...
, the ancient Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Palatina The Palatine Gate (; Piedmontese: ''Pòrta Palatin-a'') is a Roman Age city gate located in Turin, Italy. The gate provided access through the city walls of ''Julia Augusta Taurinorum'' (modern Turin) from the North side and, as a result, it cons ...
in Turin, Italy *
Porta San Pancrazio Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans and Survivors along with the Garibaldi Museum (also dedicated to the Italian Partisan Division ...
, a gate in the Janiculum district of Rome * Porta San Paolo, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Sebastiano The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). History Originally known as the Porta Appia, the gate sat astride the Appian Way, the ''regina viarum'' (queen of th ...
, the ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Santa Croce (Padua) The Walls of Padua (Italian: ''cinta muraria di Padova'') are a complex of defensive works around the Italian city of Padua, designed to defend it from hostile attack. It was built in 4 phases. Phases Roman Of the walls built during the ancien ...
, a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Savonarola (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Settimiana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Trigemina, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome * Porta del Popolo, once the Porta Flaminia, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome


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* Porta, a mobile GSM carrier of Ecuador owned by América Móvil * Porta, the main brand of beer engine manufacturer
Porter Lancastrian Porter Lancastrian Limited is a British manufacturer of point-of-sale dispense equipment for the brewing industry. The company sells its products under the Porta brand. It is also a fully accredited certified ISO 9001:2015 company. The company i ...
* Porta a Porta, an Italian television talk show *
Porta-bote A portaboat (also foldaboat, foldboat, folding boat, Porta-Boot, or porta-bote) is a type of small recreational boat that folds to flat for storage and transport. The Portaboat was originally invented in 1969. It became popular in the 1980s and 1 ...
, a small, portable, foldable boat *
Porta cath In medicine, a port is a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin. A catheter (plastic tube) connects the port to a vein. Under the skin, the port has a septum (a silicone membrane) through which drugs can be injected and blood ...
, or port, or portacath, a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin *
Porta classroom A portable classroom (also known as a demountable or relocatable classroom, portables, bungalows), is a type of portable building installed at a school to temporarily and quickly provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of ...
, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space * Porta-Color, a portable color television *
Porta della Pescheria Modena Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta e San Geminiano but colloquially known as simply ''Duomo di Modena'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Modena, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint G ...
, the north portal of the Cathedral of Modena * Porta hepatis, or transverse fissure of the liver *
Porta Hotel Antigua The Porta Hotel Antigua is a luxury colonial-style hotel in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. It was previously called "Hotel Antigua". Location The hotel is located on 8 Calle Poniente, between San Jose el Viejo and San Francisco churches. It is se ...
a hotel in Antigua *
Porta Hungarica Porta can refer to: People * Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer * Bernardo Porta (1758–1829), Italian composer active in France * Bianca Della Porta (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey and rugby ...
, the Devín Gate or Hainburger Gate, a natural gate in the Danube valley at the border of Slovakia and Austria *
Porta-ledge A portaledge is a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers who spend multiple days and nights on a big wall climb. An assembled portaledge is a fabric-covered platform surrounded by a metal frame that hangs from a single point ...
, a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers *
Porta Obscura ''Porta Obscura'' is the second studio album by German gothic metal band Coronatus. It contains 11 tracks plus 2 bonus tracks included in the limited edition digipak which was released along with the standard edition. Those bonus tracks are "Flos O ...
, an album by German gothic metal band Coronatus *
Porta potty A portable or mobile toilet (colloquial terms: thunderbox, portaloo, porta-john or porta-potty) is any type of toilet that can be moved around, some by one person, some by mechanical equipment such as a truck and crane. Most types do not require ...
, a portable toilet *
Porta Prima Augustus Augustus of Prima Porta ( it, Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The marble statue stands tall and weighs . The statue was discovered on April 20, 1863, during archa ...
, a 2.04m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar * Porta Westfalica (gorge), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Portakabin, an English trade name for a kind of portable building * PortaPuTTY, a terminal emulator application * Porta, a common misspelling of
Kodak Portra Kodak Portra is a family of daylight-balanced professional color negative films originally introduced in 1998 made mainly for portrait and wedding applications. They are successors of the professional Vericolor films (VPS and VPL), which succeed ...
film


See also

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Portanova (disambiguation) Portanova may refer to: People * Gennaro Portanova (1845–1908), Italian Catholic cardinal * Germán Portanova (born 1973), Argentine football player and manager * Daniele Portanova (born 1978), Italian football player * Manolo Portanova (born ...
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