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Porta Nuova (other)
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Porta Nuova may refer to: Italy Railway stations *Torino Porta Nuova railway station, the main railway station of Turin **Porta Nuova (Turin Metro), a rapid transit station * Pescara Porta Nuova railway station *Verona Porta Nuova railway station City gates * Archi di Porta Nuova, Milan **Porta Nuova (Milan), a business district *Porta Nuova (Palermo) *Porta Nuova, in Caravaggio, Italy *Porta Nuova, in Grosseto *Porta Nuova, in Verona, designed by Michele Sanmicheli See also *Portanova (other) Portanova may refer to: People * Gennaro Portanova (1845–1908), Italian Catholic cardinal * Germán Portanova (born 1973), Argentine football player and manager * Daniele Portanova (born 1978), Italian football player * Manolo Portanova (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Porta Nuova Railway Station
Torino Porta Nuova railway station is the main railway station of Turin, northern Italy. It is the third busiest station in Italy for passenger flow after Roma Termini railway station, Rome Termini and Milan Central railway station, Milan Central, with about 192,000 journeys per day and 70 million travellers a year and a total of about 350 trains per day. Porta Nuova is a Train station#Terminus, terminal station, with trains arriving perpendicularly to the facade. The station is located in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, right in front of Piazza Carlo Felice (in the South side of the Turin#City centre, city centre). Trains between Turin and Milan start or finish at the station, including services using the Turin–Milan high-speed railway line, Turin–Milan high-speed line. A Porta Nuova (Turin Metro), metro station, which is part of Turin Metro (''Metropolitana di Torino'') ''line 1'', has been recently built under the station building. History Construction of the statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta Nuova (Turin Metro)
Porta Nuova is a Turin Metro station, located inside Porta Nuova railway station, near Piazza Carlo Felice. It was part of the Line 1 extension from XVIII Dicembre to Porta Nuova opened on 5 October 2007. On 6 March 2011 the line was extended to Lingotto. Services * Connections with urban and suburban bus lines * Ticket vending machines * Handicap accessibility * Elevators An elevator or lift is a cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or decks of a building, vessel, or other structure. They a ... * Escalators * Active CCTV surveillance References Turin Metro stations Railway stations opened in 2007 2007 establishments in Italy {{Turin-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pescara Porta Nuova Railway Station
Pescara Porta Nuova is a railway station in Pescara, Italy. The station opened in 1883 and is located on the Adriatic railway and Rome–Sulmona–Pescara railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transp .... History Until 1927 the station was named simply ''Pescara'' since it is located in the old town of Pescara, located south of the river. Modernisation On 15 January 2009 the new passenger building was completed, designed by the Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas and cost tens of millions of euros. The original building was in a state of decay, and therefore was demolished, however leaving the old front of the building as an element of the new building. The work was carried out as part of the redevelopment of the area "The Mill" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verona Porta Nuova Railway Station
Verona Porta Nuova is the main railway station of Verona, Italy. It is one of the two stations serving central Verona; the other station, Verona Porta Vescovo, is located at the east of the city. It is situated at ''Piazzale XXV Aprile'' ("25 April") at the south of the city centre. The station is a 20-minute walk (approximately 1,5 km) or 10-minute bus ride from Arena di Verona. The station was opened in 1852 by the Austrian Empire's Südbahn and, after its transfer to Italy, has substantially been rebuilt between 1910 and 1922. Following the destruction by allied bombings during the Second World War, the present building was reconstructed between 1946 and 1949. Verona Porta Nuova is a major cross-junction station in Italy: the north–south Brenner Railway connecting Austria and Bologna meets the east–west Milan-Venice railway. The north–south route has been classified by the European Union as Trans-European Network (TEN) Axis No. 1 Berlin-Palermo. The station hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archi Di Porta Nuova
Porta Nuova (; literally "New Gate"; lmo, label=Milanese, Pòrta Noeuva ) is one of the two medieval gates of Milan that still exist in the modern city (together with the medieval Porta Ticinese). It is sited along the ancient "Navigli Ring" on the perimeter of the medieval walls of the city. Originally built in the twelfth century, Porta Nuova was restored in the nineteenth century with the insertion of two lateral passages next to the two central arcs and the addition of some ancient Roman steles on the external facade of the gate. The external facade, overlooking ''Cavour square'' (Piazza Cavour), preserve the original appearance with a marble shrine of the Madonna and Child with Saints. See also *Walls of Milan The city Milan, Italy, has had three different systems of defending walls. The oldest, Roman walls were developed in two stages, the first in the Republican and the second in the Imperial era. The second wall system was realized in the Middle Age ... Gallery F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta Nuova (Milan)
Porta Nuova (; literally "New Gate"; lmo, label=Milanese, Pòrta Noeuva ) is one of the main business districts of Milan, Italy in terms of economy, and part of the Zone 2 administrative division. Named after the well-preserved Neoclassic gate built in 1810 on this site, it is now one of Italy's most high-tech and international districts, containing the country's tallest skyscraper: the Unicredit Tower Porta Nuova has a 2017 city GDP of €400 billion, which makes it Europe's richest district within any city. A concentration of companies are based in Porta Nuova, with 4% of all institutions and conglomerates found in Italy, while Milan has 40% of all these business, and Milan's Lombardy Region has 53% of it. Industrialization is also profusely increasing within the district. A total of three Fortune 500 companies are located in it, namely AlfaRomeo, Pirelli and Techint, with a lot of other significant companies, including luxury fashion house Versace and italian football gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta Nuova (Palermo)
Porta Nuova is a monumental city gate of Palermo. It represents the entrance of the Cassaro (the main and most ancient street of the city) from Corso Calatafimi (the way to Monreale) and is located beside Palazzo dei Normanni, royal palace of Palermo. The gate was built to celebrate Charles V's conquest of Tunis (1535) and his visit to the capital of the Kingdom of Sicily. History According to the historian Tommaso Fazello the original gate was built in the 15th century. The building was initially called "Porta dell'Aquila" (Gate of the Eagle), but the people of Palermo got used to call it "''Porta Nuova''" ("''New Gate''"). After Charles V's conquest of Tunis, the Emperor came to Sicily. He entered in Palermo through this gate on 13 September 1535. In order to commemorate this event, the Senate of Palermo decreed to rebuild the gate in a more sumptuous style. The Viceroy of Sicily Marcantonio Colonna set off the construction in 1583. The gate was completed in 1584. The Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravaggio, Italy
Caravaggio (; lmo, label=Bergamasque, Careàs ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy, east of Milan. History The town received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on December 22, 1954. Geography Caravaggio borders with the municipalities of Bariano, Brignano Gera d'Adda, Calvenzano, Capralba ( CR), Fornovo San Giovanni, Misano di Gera d'Adda, Morengo, Mozzanica, Sergnano (CR) and Treviglio. Its ''frazioni'' are Masano and Vidalengo. Main sights The city is best known for the Sanctuary (15th century). Other sights include: *The Gallavresi Palace (or the Marchioness Palace), now the Town Hall. It dates to the second half of the 13th century. *Church of ''San Fermo e Rustico'', in Lombard-Gothic style, built in the 13th century over a pre-existing holy edifice. The two aisles were added in 1429. It has a façade in brickwork with a marble central portal, surmounted by a large rose window. It is flanked by a high bell tower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grosseto
Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the most populous city in Maremma, with 82,284 inhabitants. The comune of Grosseto includes the '' frazioni'' of Marina di Grosseto, the largest one, Roselle, Principina a Mare, Principina Terra, Montepescali, Braccagni, Istia d'Ombrone, Batignano, Alberese and Rispescia. History The origins of Grosseto can be traced back to the High Middle Ages. It was first mentioned in 803 as a fief of the Counts Aldobrandeschi, in a document recording the assignment of the church of St. George to Ildebrando degli Aldobrandeschi, whose successors were counts of the Grossetana Mark until the end of the 12th century. Grosseto steadily grew in importance, owing to the decline of Rusellae and Vetulonia until it was one of the principal Tuscan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Sanmicheli
Michele Sanmicheli (also spelled ''Sanmmicheli'', ''Sanmichele'' or ''Sammichele'') (1484–1559), was a Venetian architect and urban planner of Mannerist-style, among the greatest of his era. A tireless worker, he was in charge of designing buildings and religious buildings of great value. Hired by the ''Serenissima'' as a military architect, he designed also numerous fortifications in the extensive Venetian Empire, thus ensuring a great reputation. In fact, not only in Italy, where you can find his works in Venice, Verona, Bergamo and Brescia, he worked also in Dalmatia, Zadar (Zara), Šibenik, Crete and Corfu. He was probably the only practicing Venetian architect of the sixteenth century to have had the opportunity to study Greek architecture, a possible source of inspiration for the use of Doric columns without bases. Biography Sanmicheli was born in San Michele, a quarter of Verona, which at the time was part of the Venetian '' Terra ferma''. He learnt the elements of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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