Porta San Pietro (Perugia)

Italy / Umbria / Perugia / Corso Cavour
 gate, Medieval / Middle Ages, city gate
Also known as Porta Romana, set in the medieval walls, it gives the name to the entire district. The internal façade shows its original 14 th century double-fornix structure. Still preserved is a niche with a 1765 fresco that was repainted in 1817, depicting the Madonna of the Rosary and saints. The external façade is a lovely and elegant Renaissance piece of work, although with an incomplete coping, by Agostino di Duccio and Polidoro di Stefano (1475-80), based on the Leon Battista Alberti model of the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini. A stone plaque on the inside commemorates the resistance of the Perugini against the Pope’s troops on June 20, 1859.
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Coordinates:   43°6'16"N   12°23'34"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago