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Sign: Perugia - Porta Sole Fortress


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Via delle Prome, 17, 06122 Perugia PG, Italy
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On the sign:
COMUNS DI PERUGIA
ITNERARIO DI PORTA SOLE
28 SEGNALI

24 FORTEZZA DI PORTA SOLE (RESTI)

POSSENTE STRUTTURA MILITARE INTERNA ALLA CITTA COSTRUITA PER VOLONTA DELL’ABATE DI MONMAGGIORE NEL 1373 SECONDO IL DISEGNO DI MATTEO DI GATTAPONE. LA FORTEZZA UNIVA IN UN PERCORSO PROTETTO LA CATTEDRALE DI SAN LORENZO ALLA PORTA DI S ANTONIO (SEGNALE 18) E ALLA PORTA DI SAN MATTEO ORA PERDUTA. A META DI CORSO GARIBALDI CITINERARIO DI PORTA S. ANGELO)
CON LA SUA COSTRUZIONE LA FORTEZZA ALTERO’ DRAMMATICAMENTE QUESTA PARTE DELLA CITTA ETRUSCA CHE OSPITAVA L’ANTICHISSIMO TEMPIO DEDICATO AL DIO SOLE. DA CUI TUTTORA IL OUARTIERE PRENDE NOME
FU TOTALMENTE DEMOLITA DUE ANNI DOPO DA UNA MEMORABILE RIVOLTA POPOLARE DEL 1375. RIMANGONO SOLO LE ARCATE CHE SORREGGONO LA PICCOLA PIAZZA ROSSI-SCOTTI. A SINISTRA PANORAMA SUL QUARTIERE DI PORTA SANGELO. A DESTRA IL COLLE E CHIESA DI MONTELUCE GLI ORTI SOTTOSTANTI CACCESSIBILI A META’ SCALINATA) SEPARANO L’ACROPOLI DI EPOCA CLASSICA DAI QUARTIERI MEDIEVALI.

COMMUNE OF PERUGIA
PORTA SOLE ITINERARY
28 STOPS

24. PORTA SOLE FORTRESS (REMAINS)
A MIGHTY MILITARY STRUCTURE INSIDE THE TOWN BUILT FOR THE ABBOT OF MONMAGGIORE BY MATTEO DI GATTAPONE IN 1373 THE PORTA SOLE FORTRESS LINKED THE CATHEDRAL TO THE SANT ANTONIO GATE (STOP 18) AND THE SAN MATTEO GATE (NOW GONE) LOCATED HALFWAY UP CORSO GARIBALDI (PORTA SANT ANGELO ITINERARY).
THE FORTRESS OCCUPIED AND DRAMATICALLY ALTERED THIS ANCIENT PART OF THE ETRUSCAN CITY, WHERE THERE ONCE STOOD A TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE SUN GOD FROM WHICH THE ENTIRE QUARTER TOOK ITS NAME
COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BY THE PLOPLE IN REVOLT IN 1375 ALL THAT REMAINS VISIBLE ARE THE HUGE ARCHES THAT SUPPORT THIS SMALL SQUARE. TO THE LEFT IS THE PORTA SANT ANGELO QUARTER TO THE RIGHT IS MONTELUCE THE GARDEN, UNDERNEATH PROVIDE A NATURAL BREAK BETWEEN THE CLASSICAL AGROPOLIS AND THE MEDILVAL OUARTERS
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A point on the walking route of the Porta Sole district, and the gates in the Etruscan wall.

The current sign is about Porta Sole, one of the old gates in the wall.

The place where the sign is located was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

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