Porta Maggiore (Fano)

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The Porta Maggiore ( or Porta Mazzini, or Porta Maggiore Malatesta ) was until the beginning of the twentieth century the main entrance to the city of Fano ( PU) . The port was built at the end of 1400 instead of the previous defense Malatesta , probably much altered by the bombing of the papal troops led by Federico da Montefeltro in August 1463.
The new port was designed , as well as the next bastion , by Matteo Nuti and completed by his son Ludwig. The entrance was designed to be an update of the defenses until that moment in the now obsolete port consisting of Augustus : a new entrance was built then moved westward , low, squat , with only one opening to the driveway and one for pedestrian . Flanked by two holes still visible , allowed the shot flanking . The Gate was originally to be crowned with battlements , then covered by a wooden truss . His home front was stretched in the sixteenth century. What remains today of the Porta Maggiore is the result of restoration work in the twentieth century .
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