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MONUMENTS PROVINCE OF RIMINIMONUMENTS RIMINIPorta Montanara - Porta Saint'AndreaPorta Montanara, also called Porta di SaintAndrea, built in the circuit of the city walls with large blocks of sandstone, and whose two barrel-vaults were about 3,50 metres wide and 6 meters high, was the southern entrance into the Roman city of Rimini. Built in the I century B.C., in the age of Sulla, Porta Montanara was, with Porta Romana, afterwards replaced with the Arch of Augustus, Porta Marina and Porta Gallica, one of the four gates ofAriminum. The cardo maximus, the city’s main street - which led northwards into the port – and the important road that arrived from Aretium were connected by this gate. The barrel-vault on the right, destroyed during the bombing of 1943, has been utilized as gate of the city of Rimini till the XIII century, the one on the left, during the Middle Age closed and included in the building called Case Rosse, has been moved, in recent times, in the Diocese’s court, near the Malatesta Temple, and put back, in December 2003, in Via Garibaldi.
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