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Porta Latina, number four.
Popping into San Giovanni Porta Latina, one of the great spoila churches of Rome.
Porta San Sebastiano. Time to stop and read some traveler graffiti.
Arch of Drusus, break time, gonna pop into the Museo della Mura of course.
Giuseppe Tozzi stopped by Porta San Sebastiano in August of 1566.
Nice travertine threshold looking toward the arches of Porta Ardeatina. (Not ancient, but still a porta.)
We’ve reached the section of wall rebuilt in the 15th century, this time not just to keep invaders out, but to withstand cannon fire.
Great stretch of the wall here, where you can see the original height of the Aurelian wall demarcated by a line of long bricks, and the extension of the walls by Honorius in the fifth century.
Nicholas the fifth (16th c) decided to mark his renovation of the wall by writing his name in brick, and I am here for it.
Gaius Cestius off in the distance, as we leave the Aventine and head into Testaccio (and to da Bucatino for lunch, naturally).
Porta Paolo, you stunner.
Of course we decided to visit Gramsci while we were passing by. He’s buried in the non-Catholic cemetery, about 25m inside of the wall, visible in the background here.
Up close and personal with the wall in the back of the non-Catholic cemetery.
Looking out an embrasure toward viale del Campo Boario.
And of course we wouldn’t leave without visiting Gisela Richter, one of the most influential classical art historians of all time and the first woman to be appointed as a curator @metmuseum.
And we’re back at it. Here’s the only remaining piece of the Aurelian wall running along the river.
(For the experts following along at home you’ll notice that we did skip Porta Fluviale, partially because it is under a train station, and partially because it was lunchtime and we were hungry.)
Crossing the Tiber for the first time. About to climb the Janiculum and cross back over at Ponte Sisto.
Porta Portese is next.
It *is* Sunday but we’re too late for the market, unfortunately. Glad to see they’re taking precautions, in all events.
We’ve met up with (the papal version of) the wall again, in Trastevere.
Here begins the trek up the Gianicolo. (It’s steeper than it looks.)
Belvedere at the crest of the Gianicolo, looking out to the gazometro, San Paolo Fuori le Mura, and Eur.
Winding our way toward the @AmAcademyRome
Porta San Pancrazio/Porta Aurelia, glowing just about at golden hour.
Golden hour from Fontanone, before we descend to the Porta Settimiana and cross back over the Tiber.
Down we go.
Porta Settimiana. We’re about to take a brisk walk to Piazza del Popolo, where we’ll find the Porta Flaminio, and the next extant piece of the wall.
Back over the Tiber at Ponte Sisto
Taking a shortcut through the Stadium of Domitian, because there’s no wall to be seen on the lungotevere anyway
