Porta Magica - Engraving

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 player
* Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect
* Costanzo Porta (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 (1800–1875), Italian surgeon
* Miquel Porta (born 1957), Spanish epidemiologist and scholar
* Richard Porta (born 1983), Uruguayan Australian footballer

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, Thessaly, 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, 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

Convents

*Porta Coeli (Moravia), in the Czech Republic, a convent from 1239 after which an asteroid is named
* Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico), in San Germán, Puerto Rico

Railway stations

* Porta Alpina, a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern Switzerland
* Porta Nuova, Turin, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy
* Verona Porta Nuova railway station, in Verona, northern Italy
* Porta Susa, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy
* Porta Gia Ton Ourano, a song recorded by Greek pop singer Elena Paparizou

City gates

* Porta Appia, 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, 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 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, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Latina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Leoni, 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, in Trier, Germany
* Porta Nomentana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Ognissanti (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
* Porta Ostiensis, 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 (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Praetoria, the main gate of a Roman ''castrum''
* Porta Praenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Prenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
* Porta Salaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta San Giovanni (Rome), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta San Giovanni (San Gimignano), a gate in the walls of San Gimignano
* Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
* Porta San Lorenzo, the ancient Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Palatina in Turin, Italy
* Porta San Pancrazio, 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 ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Porta Santa Croce (Padua), 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

Other

* Porta, a mobile GSM carrier of Ecuador owned by América Móvil
* Porta, the main brand of beer engine manufacturer Porter Lancastrian
* Porta a Porta, an Italian television talk show
* Porta-bote, a small, portable, foldable boat
* Porta cath, or port, or portacath, a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin
* Porta classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space
* Porta-Color, a portable color television
* Porta della Pescheria, the north portal of the Cathedral of Modena
* Porta hepatis, or transverse fissure of the liver
* Porta Hotel Antigua a hotel in Antigua
* Porta Hungarica, the Devín Gate or Hainburger Gate, a natural gate in the Danube valley at the border of Slovakia and Austria
* Porta-ledge, a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers
* Porta Obscura, an album by German gothic metal band Coronatus
* Porta potty, a portable toilet
* Porta Prima Augustus, 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 film

See also

* Portanova (disambiguation)

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