Porta can refer to:
People
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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
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Bernardo Porta
Bernardo Porta (1758,Marc Honegger, Dictionnaire de la musique : Tome 2, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. L-Z, Paris, Bordas, 1979, 1232 p. (), p. 872 Rome – 11 June 1829, Paris) was an Italian composer who was active in France.
Biography
After co ...
(1758–1829), Italian composer active in France
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Bianca Della Porta
Bianca Della Porta (born 23 March 1991 in Dorval, Quebec) is a Canadian ice hockey and rugby player who has played for professional teams in both sports.
Hockey career
Bianca Della Porta began playing hockey at the age of 8. She played seve ...
(born 1991), Canadian ice hockey and rugby player
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Carlo Porta
Carlo Porta (June 15, 1775 – January 5, 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the prestige dialect of the Lombard language).
Biography
Porta was born in Milan to Giuseppe Porta and Violante Gottieri, a merchant famil ...
(1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect
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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
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Giacomo della Porta
Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602) was an Italian architect and sculptor, who worked on many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica. He was born at Porlezza, Lombardy and died in Rome.
Biography
Giacomo Della Porta was b ...
(1532–1602), Italian sculptor and architect
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Giambattista della Porta
Giambattista della Porta (; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Reformation.
Giamba ...
(1535–1615), Neapolitan physician and playwright
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Giovanni Porta
Giovanni Porta (c. 1677 – 21 June 1755) was an Italian opera composer. His opera ''Argippo'', to a libretto by Domenico Lalli, was premiered in Venice in 1717.Freeman, Daniel E. (1992)''The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton Von Sporck in ...
(1675–1755), Italian composer
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Hugo Porta
Hugo Porta (born 11 September 1951) is a former Argentine Rugby Union footballer, an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame, and one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen. During the 1970s and 1980s, he p ...
(born 1951), Argentine rugby union footballer
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Livio Dante Porta
Livio Dante Porta (21 March 1922 – 10 June 2003) was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications to existing locomotive systems in order to obtain better performance and energy effici ...
(1923–2003), Argentine engineer
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Luigi Porta (1800–1875), Italian surgeon
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Miquel Porta
Miquel Porta (Barcelona, 1957) is a Catalan physician, epidemiologist and scholar. He has promoted the integration of biological, clinical and environmental knowledge and methods in health research and teaching, which he has conducted international ...
(born 1957), Spanish epidemiologist and scholar
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Richard Porta
Richard Aníbal Porta Candelaresi (born 1 August 1983) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a two-time golden boot winner, having won the award whilst at River Plate and most recently at Nacional in Uruguay's P ...
(born 1983), Uruguayan Australian footballer
Places
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La Porta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica
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Porta (Barcelona) a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain
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Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales
Porta (; ca, Porta) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Geography
Porta is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades.
Population
See also
*Communes of the ...
, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France
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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
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Porta, Xanthi, a district of Xanthi in Thrace, northeastern Greece
* ''Porta'', the
Hungarian name for Poarta village,
Bran
Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of Cereal, cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp. Corn (maize) bran also includes the pedicel (tip cap). Along with cereal germ, germ, it is an integral pa ...
Commune, Braşov County, Romania
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Porta del Sol
Porta del Sol is a tourism region in western Puerto Rico. It consists of 17 municipalities in the western area: Quebradillas, Isabela, San Sebastián, Moca, Aguadilla, Aguada, Rincón, Añasco, Mayagüez, Las Marías, Maricao, Hormigueros, San Ge ...
, a tourism region in western Puerto Rico
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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
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Porta Westfalica
Porta Westfalica () is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The name "''Porta Westfalica''" is Latin and means "gate to Westphalia". Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of West ...
in Germany
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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
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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
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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
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Verona Porta Nuova railway station
Verona Porta Nuova is the main railway station of Verona, Italy. It is one of the two stations serving central Verona; the other station, Verona Porta Vescovo, is located at the east of the city.
It is situated at ''Piazzale XXV Aprile'' ("25 A ...
, in Verona, northern Italy
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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
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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
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Porta Asinaria
The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between 271 and 275 AD, at the same time as the Wall itself. It was not rebuilt or fortified in the ti ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Borsari, a Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy.
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Porta Capena
Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall in Rome, Italy.
The gate was located in the area of Piazza di Porta Capena, where the Caelian, Palatine and Aventine hills meet. Probably its exact position was between the entrance of Via di Valle de ...
, a gate in the Servian Wall near the Caelian Hill, in Rome
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Porta Capuana
The Porta Capuana is an ancient city gate in Naples, Italy. The gate also gives name to the zone, which is one of the ten boroughs of Naples. This zone being part of the Fourth Municipality.
In spite of the name, the portal is not the ancient ...
, an ancient city gate in Naples, southern Italy
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Porta Collina
The Colline Gate (Latin ''Porta Collina'') was a landmark in ancient Rome, supposed to have been built by Servius Tullius, semi-legendary king of Rome 578–535 BC. The gate stood at the north end of the Servian Wall, and past it were two impor ...
, a gate at the north end of the Servian Wall of Rome
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Porta de Santiago, a small gate house and the only remaining part of the A Famosa fortress in Malacca, Malaysia
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Porta Decumana
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word ''castrum'', plural ''castra'', was a military-related term.
In Latin usage, the singular form ''castrum'' meant 'fort', while the plural form ''castra'' meant 'camp'. The singular and ...
, the back gate of a Roman ''castrum''
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Porta Esquilina
The Porta Esquilina (or Esquiline Gate) was a gate in the Servian Wall,Platner, S.B. and Ashby, T. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome''. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University, Press. 1929 of which the Arch of Gallienus is extant toda ...
, a gate in the Servian Wall of Rome
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Porta Flaminia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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
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Porta Leoni, an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy
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Porta Liviana
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 medieval gate in the walls of Padua, Italy
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Porta Maggiore
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 Prenestina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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
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Porta Nomentana
The Porta Nomentana was one of the gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. It is located along viale del Policlinico, around 70 m east of Porta Pia. It is now blocked and merely a boundary wall for the British Embassy.
History
It was ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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
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Porta Ostiensis, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Pia
Porta Pia is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after him. Situated at the end of a new street, the Via Pia, it was designed by Michelangelo in replacement for the Port ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Pinciana
Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome.
The name derives from the ''gens'' Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill (Pincian Hill). In ancient times it was also called ''Porta Turata'' ("Plugged Gate", for it was partially closed) ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Portese
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 ...
, a gate in the seventeenth-century Janiculum Walls of Rome
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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
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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''
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Porta Praenestina
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
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Porta Prenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
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Porta Salaria
Porta Salaria was a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. Constructed between 271 AD and 275 AD, it was finally demolished in 1921.
History
Porta Salaria was part of the Aurelian Walls built by emperor Aurelian in the 3rd century, inclu ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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 or, ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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
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Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
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Porta San Lorenzo, the ancient Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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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
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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
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Porta San Paolo
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
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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
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Porta Santa Croce (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
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Porta Savonarola (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
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Porta Settimiana
Porta Settimiana is one of the gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy).
It rises at the northern vertex of the rough triangle traced by the town walls, built by Emperor Aurelian in the 3rd century, in the area of Trastevere an up through the ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Tiburtina
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 (Aqua M ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
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Porta Trigemina
The Porta Trigemina was one of the main gates in the ancient 4th century Servian Wall of Rome, Italy. The gate no longer exists, but it is frequently mentioned by ancient authors as standing between the north end of the Aventine Hill and the Tiber ...
, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome
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Porta del Popolo
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 ...
, once the Porta Flaminia, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome
Other
* Porta, a mobile GSM carrier of Ecuador owned by
América Móvil
América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the 7th largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers and one of the largest corporations in the world. América Móvil is a ...
* Porta, the main brand of beer engine manufacturer
Porter Lancastrian
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Porta a Porta
''Porta a Porta'' (literally ''Door-to-door'') is an Italian late night television talk show hosted by the Italian journalist Bruno Vespa and is broadcast on Rai Uno
Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated ...
, an Italian television talk show
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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
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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
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Porta classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space
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Porta-Color
General Electric's Porta-Color was the first "portable" color television introduced in the United States in 1966.
The Porta-Color set introduced a new variation of the shadow mask display tube. It had the electron guns arranged in an in-line confi ...
, a portable color television
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Porta della Pescheria, the north portal of the Cathedral of Modena
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Porta hepatis
The porta hepatis or transverse fissure of the liver is a short but deep fissure, about 5 cm long, extending transversely beneath the left portion of the right lobe of the liver, nearer its posterior surface than its anterior border.
It join ...
, or transverse fissure of the liver
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Porta Hotel Antigua a hotel in Antigua
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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
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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
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Porta Obscura, an album by German gothic metal band Coronatus
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Porta potty, a portable toilet
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Porta Prima Augustus, a 2.04m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar
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Porta Westfalica (gorge)
Weser watershed
The Porta Westfalica, also known as the Westphalian Gap, is a gorge and water gap where the Weser river breaks through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehen Hills in the west and the Weser Hills (part of the W ...
, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Portakabin
A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located.
Smaller version of portable buildings are also known as portable cabins. Portable cabins are prefabricated structu ...
, an English trade name for a kind of portable building
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PortaPuTTY
Putty is a material with high plasticity, similar in texture to clay or dough, typically used in domestic construction and repair as a sealant or filler. Although some types of putty (typically those using linseed oil) slowly polymerise and be ...
, 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)
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