PORTA SANTI QUARANTA (GATE OF THE HOLY FORTY)

Porta Santi Quaranta, which faces its namesake village, was built in 1517 under the mayor Andrea Vendramin, who adorned it with his own coat-of-arms.
The external facade, which is more elegant than that lacing the city, is characterised by an extreme purity of architectonic lines and simplicity.
It is divided by four pilasters mounted on a high base of Istrian stone supporting the trabeation. The coat of arms of the mayor, the City and the doge Leonardo Loredan are used to embellish the spaces between the pilasters.
A large arched entrance is found in the centre of the gate surmounted by the beautiful Venetian lion by Annibale De Lotto. This lion was posationed in 1909 by the Tarvisium Venetiae Associationt, to replace the one destroyed by the French.
To the sides of the man arcway are two small portals: the one to the left is surmounted by an inscription dedicated to Bartolomeo d'Alviano, man-to-arms who collaborated in the construction and completion of the encircling 16th century walls: "Bartolomeo Liviano veneti exercitus imperatore designante idemo comprobante Senatu". Above the portal on the right, traces of the stone inscription dedicated to the mayor Andrea Vendramin on his own behalf can still be seen. According to Cima, this inscription was chipped away in 1691 by orders of the Serene Republic. From that moment Porta Vendramina took back its original name of Porta Santi Quaranta.

PORTA ALTINIA

Porta Altinia was, chronologically, the first of the three gates to be built.
It was erected in the years 1513-14 when Sebastiano Moro held the office of mayor. It was so named because through its door passed the refugees from the nearby city of Altino, which was destroyed by Attila.
It is very different from the other two city gates, St. Tomaso and Santi Quaranta. It still has the severe style of the gate from the 1300s.
Any sign of an access gate into the City is barely perceptible from the interior. Instead, it appears to be a small residential palace.
Externally, however, the brick tower is completely visible. A stone course is still visible, which indicates where the original balcony was located and from where the entry was defended.
The stone portal occupies almost the entire width of the facade, outlined by two light pilasters. These pilasters are in turn flanked by two coat-of-arms and support a trabeation which was surmounted by the winged lion.
Porta Altinia is no longer on the main communication road network. However, when it was built, it was a highly frequented route and an obligatory one for those who wished to reach Venice.


 
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