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Porta (rapper) Christian Jiménez Bundó (born 2 July 1988 in Barcelona), known professionally as Porta, is a Spanish rapper. Early life and education He was born in Sarrià, Barcelona. Career His lyrics have sometimes been controversial, and have been crit ...
(born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer *
Porta (surname) Porta is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonio Porta, former Argentine-Italian professional basketball player * Antonio Porta (author) * Bernardo Porta (1758–1829), Italian composer active in France * Bian ...
, surname


Places

* La Porta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica * Porta (Barcelona) a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain * Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France *
Porta, Thessaly Pyli () is a municipality in the Trikala (regional unit), Trikala regional unit, Greece. Situated 18 km west of Trikala, right at the bottom of two mountains Itamos, and Koziakas, which mark the beginning of the Pindos mountainline, Pyli mar ...
, a pass and settlement in Thessaly, central Greece * Porta, Xanthi, a district of Xanthi in Thrace, northeastern Greece * ''Porta'', the Hungarian name for Poarta village,
Bran Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the component of a Cereal, cereal grain consisting of the hard layersthe combined aleurone and Fruit anatomy#Pericarp layers, pericarpsurrounding the endosperm. Maize, Corn (maize) bran also includes the p ...
Commune, Braşov County, Romania *
Porta del Sol Porta del Sol (Spanish for "Doorway of the Sun"), or simply West Region (''Región Oeste''), is a tourism region in western Puerto Rico. Porta del Sol was the first tourism region to be established by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. It consists ...
, a tourism region in western Puerto Rico * Porta Littoria, the name applied from 1939 to 1946 for the town of La Thuile in the Valle d’Aosta, Italy *
Porta Westfalica Porta Westfalica () is a town in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name "''Porta Westfalica''" is Latin and means "gate to Westphalia". Coming from the north, the gorge is the entry to the region of West ...
in Germany *
Porta Nigra The Porta Nigra (Latin language, Latin for ''black gate''), referred to by locals as Porta, is a large Roman Empire, Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name ''Porta Nigra'' originated in the Middle Ages d ...
in Trier, Germany


Convents

* Porta Coeli (Moravia), in the Czech Republic, a convent from 1239 after which an asteroid is named *
Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico) Porta Coeli, Latin for "Heaven Gate", is the name given today to the former Church and Convent of Santo Domingo de Porta Coeli (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Iglesia y Convento de Santo Domingo de Porta Coeli''), particularly to its remaining chur ...
, in San Germán, Puerto Rico


Railway stations

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Porta Alpina , ...
, a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern Switzerland * Porta Nuova, Turin, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy *
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 railway station, Verona Porta Vescovo, is located at the east of the city. It is situa ...
, in Verona, northern Italy *
Porta Susa Torino Porta Susa is a railway station in Turin, northern Italy; it is the second busiest mainline station in the city, after Torino Porta Nuova railway station, Torino Porta Nuova. It is located in ''Corso England, Inghilterra''. History The ...
, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy * Porta Gia Ton Ourano, a song recorded by Greek pop singer Elena Paparizou


City gates

* Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, now known as the Porta San Sebastiano *
Porta Asinaria The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between 271 and 275 AD, at the same time as the Wall itself. Unlike most of the other gates, it was not ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Borsari Porta Borsari is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. The gate dates to the 1st century AD, though it was most likely built over a pre-existing gate from the 1st century BC. An inscription dating from Emperor Gallienus' reign reports ...
, a Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. *
Porta Capena The Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall in Rome, Italy. The gate was located in the area of Piazza di Porta Capena, where the Caelian, Palatine and Aventine hills meet. Probably its exact position was between the entrance of Via di Va ...
, a gate in the Servian Wall near the Caelian Hill, in Rome *
Porta Capuana The Porta Capuana is a Renaissance city gate in Naples, Italy, originally passing through the medieval city walls, of which two bastions remain to the sides. The gate also gives its name to the zone, which is one of the ten boroughs of Naples. Th ...
, an ancient city gate in Naples, southern Italy *
Porta Collina The Colline Gate (Latin ''Porta Collina'') was a landmark in ancient Rome, supposed to have been built by Servius Tullius, semi-legendary king of Rome 578–535 BC. The gate stood at the north end of the Servian Wall, and past it were two im ...
, a gate at the north end of the Servian Wall of Rome *
Porta de Santiago A Famosa () was a Portuguese fortress built in Malacca, Malaysia, circa 1512. The oldest part of the fortress was a five-storey keep which eventually gave its name to the fortress as a whole. Some time following the Battle of Malacca (1641) ...
, a small gate house and the only remaining part of the A Famosa fortress in Malacca, Malaysia *
Porta Decumana ''Castra'' () is a Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and ''castrum'' () for a 'fort'. Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified military base.. Included is a discuss ...
, the back gate of a Roman ''castrum'' *
Porta Esquilina The Porta Esquilina (or Esquiline Gate) was a gate in the Servian Wall,Platner, S.B. and Ashby, T. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome''. London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University, Press. 1929 of which the Arch of Gallienus is extant t ...
, a gate in the Servian Wall of Rome *
Porta Flaminia The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio. History The previous name was ''Porta Flaminia'', because the consular Via Flaminia p ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Latina The Porta Latina (Latin - ''Latin Gate'') is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome. History It marked the Rome end of the Via Latina and gives its name to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina. Most of the present st ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Leoni Porta Leoni (Gate of the Lions) is an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy. The gate was built during the Roman Republic by P. Valerius, Q. Caecilius, Q. Servilius and P. Cornelius, and restructured in imperial times. It was connected to ...
, an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy * Porta Liviana, a medieval gate in the walls of Padua, Italy *
Porta Maggiore The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via Pr ...
, or Porta Prenestina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Nigra The Porta Nigra (Latin language, Latin for ''black gate''), referred to by locals as Porta, is a large Roman Empire, Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name ''Porta Nigra'' originated in the Middle Ages d ...
, in Trier, Germany *
Porta Nomentana The Porta Nomentana was one of the gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. It is located along viale del Policlinico, around 70 m east of Porta Pia. It is now blocked and merely a boundary wall for the British Embassy. History It was ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Ognissanti (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Ostiensis, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Pia Porta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after him. Situated at the end of a new street, the Via Pia, it was designed by Michelangelo to rep ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Pinciana Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. The name derives from the ''gens'' Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill (Pincian Hill). In ancient times it was also called ''Porta Turata'' ("Plugged Gate", for it was partially closed) an ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Portese Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber on the southern edge of the Rione Trastevere of Rome, Italy. History The gate was built in ...
, a gate in the seventeenth-century Janiculum Walls of Rome * Porta Portuensis (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Praetoria, the main gate of a Roman ''castrum'' *
Porta Praenestina The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via Pr ...
(or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Prenestina The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via Pr ...
(or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua *
Porta Salaria Porta Salaria was a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. Constructed between 271 AD and 275 AD, it was demolished in 1921. History Porta Salaria was part of the Aurelian Walls built by emperor Aurelian in the 3rd century, including pre ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Giovanni (Rome) Porta San Giovanni is a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, Italy, named after the nearby Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. History It consists of a single grand arch built for Pope Gregory XIII in ''opera forse'' by Giacomo della Porta or, it ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Giovanni (San Gimignano) San Gimignano (; named after Geminianus, St. Geminianus) is a small Defensive wall, walled Middle Ages, medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Five Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its m ...
, a gate in the walls of San Gimignano * Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta San Lorenzo, the ancient Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Palatina The Palatine Gate (; Piedmontese: ''Pòrta Palatin-a'') is a Roman Age city gate located in Turin, Italy. The gate provided access through the city walls of ''Julia Augusta Taurinorum'' (modern Turin) from the North side and, as a result, it con ...
in Turin, Italy *
Porta San Pancrazio Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans and Survivors along with the Garibaldi Museum (also dedicated to the Italian Partisan Division ...
, a gate in the Janiculum district of Rome *
Porta San Paolo The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum (') is housed within the gatehouse. It is in the Ostiense quarter; just to the west is the Roma ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta San Sebastiano The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). History Originally known as the Porta Appia, the gate sat astride the Appian Way, the ''regina viarum'' (queen of the ...
, the ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome * Porta Santa Croce (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Savonarola (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua * Porta Settimiana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Tiburtina Porta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city. History The gate originally was an arch, built under Augustus, in the point in which three aqueducts (Aqua Ma ...
, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome *
Porta Trigemina The Porta Trigemina was one of the main gates in the ancient 4th century BC Servian Wall of Rome, Italy. The gate no longer exists, but it is frequently mentioned by ancient authors as standing between the north end of the Aventine Hill and the T ...
, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome *
Porta del Popolo The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio. History The previous name was ''Porta Flaminia'', because the consular Via Flaminia p ...
, once the Porta Flaminia, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome


Other

* Porta, a mobile GSM carrier of Ecuador owned by
América Móvil América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican telecommunications corporation headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the 7th largest mobile network operator in the world in terms of equity subscribers, as well as one of the largest corpor ...
* Porta, the main brand of beer engine manufacturer Porter Lancastrian *
Porta a Porta ''Porta a Porta'' () is an Italian late night television talk show A talk show is a television programming, radio programming or podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Te ...
, an Italian television talk show *
Porta-bote A portaboat (also foldaboat, foldboat, folding boat, Porta-Boot, or porta-bote) is a type of small recreational boat that folds to flat for storage and transport. The Portaboat was originally invented in 1969. It became popular in the 1980s and 1 ...
, a small, portable, foldable boat *
Porta cath In medicine, a port or chemoport is a small appliance that is installed beneath the skin. A catheter (plastic tube) connects the port to a vein. Under the skin, the port has a septum (a silicone membrane) through which drugs can be injected an ...
, or port, or portacath, a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin * Porta classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space *
Porta-Color General Electric's Porta-Color was the first "portable" color television introduced in the United States in 1966. The Porta-Color set introduced a new variation of the shadow mask display tube. It had the electron guns arranged in an in-line confi ...
, a portable color television * Porta della Pescheria, the north portal of the Cathedral of Modena *
Porta hepatis The porta hepatis or transverse fissure of the liver is a short but deep fissure, about 5 cm long, extending transversely beneath the left portion of the right lobe of the liver, nearer its posterior surface than its anterior border. It join ...
, or transverse fissure of the liver * Porta Hotel Antigua a hotel in Antigua * Porta Hungarica, the Devín Gate or Hainburger Gate, a natural gate in the Danube valley at the border of Slovakia and Austria * Porta-ledge, a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers * Porta Obscura, an album by German gothic metal band Coronatus * Porta potty, a portable toilet * Porta Prima Augustus, a 2.04m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar *
Porta Westfalica (gorge) Weser watershed The Porta Westfalica (German pronunciation: pɔʁta vɛstˈfaːlɪka, also known as the Westphalian Gap, is a gorge and water gap where the Weser river breaks through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehen Hil ...
, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *
Portakabin A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located. Smaller version of portable buildings are also known as portable cabins. Portable cabins are prefabricated struct ...
, an English trade name for a kind of portable building * PortaPuTTY, a terminal emulator application * Porta, a common misspelling of Kodak Portra film


See also

* Portanova (disambiguation) * Portia (disambiguation) {{disambig, geo, surname