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Porta da Vila is Óbidos' main town gate. Between the gateways is a balcony that served as an oratory, embellished with beautiful blue and white tile panels from 1740, depicting the Passion of Christ.
The remains of at least 40 abandoned vessels lie embedded in silt and partially hidden by mangroves in the backwaters of the Port River, in Adelaide's north west. As vessels within the Port fell into disrepair or were no longer viable, harbour authorities needed to cater for their disposal. South Australia's relatively shallow gulf waters meant that scuttling at sea w...
Porta del Popolo is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). The current Porta del Popolo was built by Pope Sixtus IV for the Jubilee Year 1475 on the site of an ancient Roman gate which, at that time, was partially buried.
Close to the gate, one of the "duty stones" placed in 175 AD was discovered. Similar stones were discovered in different times nearby other i...
Find out why Portage Glacier is one of Alaska's most popular attractions. Visit the sheer, awesome face of a mighty Alaska glacier located just an hour from Anchorage. Cruising across Portage Lake on the mv Ptarmigan, you'll stand just 300 yards from a relic of the Ice Age and watch for fractures of ice break off the glacier and crash into the water below.
The Dvojna vrata (Porta Gemina) is a Roman city gate located in Pula, Croatia. It was built during the late 2nd century.Porta Geminais a double arched gate. It was one of the ten city gates of Pula, standing at the north side of the capitol.
In antiquity, Pula was surrounded by walls. In modern times, these were knocked down out of necessity, due to the expansion of t...
The Portaikos Bridge is an Ottoman-era stone bridge over the Portaikos in the Trikala Prefecture, Thessaly, Greece.
The bridge is located on the 22nd kilometer of the Trikala–Arta national road, near the village of Pyli. It was built in 1514 by the Metropolitan of Larissa, Saint Bessarion, and until 1936 it was the only way connecting the Thessalian plain with t...
The Porta Latina (Latin -Latin Gate) is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome. 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 structure dates to Honorius, including the arch's voussoirs (though they are often wrongly attributed to a 6th-century restoration by Belisarius...
When strolling through New York's Finanial District make sure to make a stop along Pearl Street to see the 1667 remains of the Lovelace Tavern. Set into the pavement under glass at the pedestrian plaza that curves around 85 Broad Street, are the visible remnants of colonial-era New York.
The 1975 excavation uncovered some of the only physical relics of the old Dutc...
The Portal of San Giorgio is the symbolic monument of the city of Ragusa, it was built in Gothic-Catalan style in the first half of the XIII century as part of the church of San Giorgio now disappeared.
Portal survived the earthquake of 1693. One of the few remains in the area before that year.
Built with blocks of soft limestone, with a light pink color. The lunett...
Porta Leoni is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, 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 the road which led to Bologna and Aquileia.
The original Roman name is unknown. During the Middle Ages it was calledPorta San Fermo, due to the nearby ch...
The Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is in Los Angeles, California. The shrine is a 75-foot-tall (23 m) structure of marble, mosaic, and sculpted figures and is the burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation. Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr., it was built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Aviation enthusiast...
Porta Macedonia (Macedonia Gate) is a memorial arch located on Pella Square in Skopje, North Macedonia. Construction started in 2011 and was completed in January 2012.
The arch is 21 meters in height, and cost EUR 4.4 million. Its author is Valentina Stevanovska, a sculptor who made several other controversial monuments from the Skopje 2014 project, including the stat...
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 Prenestina was the eastern road to the ancient town of Praeneste (modern Palestrina). The Via Labicana (now called theVia Cas...
The Porta Nigra is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is today the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps. It is designated as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The name Porta Nigra originated in the Middle Ages due to the darkened colour of its stone; the original Roman name h...
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