The Porta Garibaldi, previously known as the Porta Comasina, is a

city gate A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. Uses City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods ...

located in

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, Italy, on the old road to

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. The Neoclassical arch was built to commemorate the visit of

Francis I of Austria Francis II and I (; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and served ...

in 1825. It was reconstructed from 1826 to 1828 by Giacomo Moraglia and dedicated to

Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as (). In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as () or (). 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. H ...

in 1860. Built in the Doric style, the gate is flanked by two portals overlooking the street. The customs houses were added in 1836. It's less than monumental proportions are better suited to the surrounding streets as the gate used to be at the end of a winding road, hardly compatible with a grandiose project.Micaela Pisaroni, ''Il neoclassicismo - Itinerari di Milano e Provincia'', 1999, Como, NodoLibri, p. 31. Today Porta Garibaldi is also one of the districts of Milan.

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