Porta San Paolo

The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the Walls of the city and hosts the Ostiense Museum.

Close by, is the Pyramid of Cestius, an Egyptian-style buring monument of the first roman governor of Egipt (I century BC) and beyond that is the Protestant Cemetery.

The original name of the gate was Porta Ostiensis because it was located of the beginning of the road that connected Rome and Ostia, the harbour on the coast.

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