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The Portonaccio. Despite advertising Roman Hispellum, the gate is completely medieval, lying just outside the Roman walls: see below. |
The Portonaccio is the only one of Spello's twelve extant gates built in the plain. There is barely one block between it and the much larger Consolare and its high watchtower. I can't resist feeling that it was just a matter of medieval pride: in the Middle Ages as now, the natural approach would be from the south, and this would have been your first contact with the city. |
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The other five medieval gates, are, widdershins around the city from the Portonaccio:
Each one of them should get its own little page, although for some I might not have quite the material. |
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