Porta Borsari Site Features

The Gallienus inscription

Cut across the front, recording the 265 AD wall rebuild and the 259 days it took.

The two carriageways

Twin arches at street level, framed by columns -- and still, in effect, doing their job as the way into the old town.

The aedicule storeys

Two tiers of small arched windows between fluted columns, the reason the gate reads as architecture rather than fortification.

The street itself

Corso Porta Borsari follows the Roman decumanus, so walking through the gate puts you on a two-thousand-year-old alignment.