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Key facts
- Type
- City gate
- Architectural style
- Roman
- Location
- Trier , Germany
- Construction started
- 170 AD
- Official name
- Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
- Criteria
- i, iii, iv, vi
- Designated
- 1986 (10th session )
- Region
- Europe and North America
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city gate
- Part of
- Trier
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Trier
- Official website
- zentrum-der-antike.de/monumente/porta-nigra/die-porta-nigra.html
- Image
- Porta Nigra morgens (100MP).jpg
- Significant event
- conflagration
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- Commons category
- Porta Nigra
- Commons gallery
- Porta Nigra
- architectural style
- ancient Roman architecture
- native label
- Porta Nigra
- inception
- 0180-00-00
- described at URL
- kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=3178
- hashtag
- PortaNigra
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Porta Nigra (Latin for black gate), referred to by locals as the Porta, is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is a monumental gateway representative of Hellenistic military architecture of the time. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The name Porta Nigra originated in the Middle Ages due to the darkened colour of its stone; the original Roman name has not been preserved.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porta Nigra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.