Porta Garibaldi (Milan city gate)

Porta Garibaldi, Porta Comasina previously, is a built by the architect Giacomo Moraglia in the 19th century city gate of Milan.

The old Porta Comasina goes back to Roman times. ( This name was also one of the six historic districts of Milan. ) The Spanish city walls of Milan here had a modest goal. During the Napoleonic rule, the city government planned under Melzi d' Eril a general transformation of the bastions and acting as fiscal borders gates. A project by Luigi Cagnola remained unrealized, the reinstated Austrian rule commissioned Giacomo Moraglia planning a triumphal arch -like gate, which was completed in 1828. The costs took over the Milanese merchants.

The dedication texts of the gate changed in the sequence with the political realities: First, it was the Emperor Franz I honored ("A FRANCESCO I / PIO OTTIMO MASSIMO / I NEGOZIANTI MILANESI ERESSERO " ), from 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi.