Porta Trigemina

The Porta Trigemina was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall, Rome. They originally came from the 5th century BC, but like the entire city wall in the 4th century BC was renewed.

The porta Trigemina lay between the western slope of the Aventine and the Tiber, their precise location has not been established, although it probably was still in the 15th century. It is frequently mentioned in ancient written sources. Your Location is suspected by some of the church of Santa Sabina. Other connecting them to the discovery of a 3.30 meter wide sheet of tufa, which was 40 meters south of the church Santa Maria unearthed in Cosmedin.

The gate was located in one of the most populous district of Republican Rome near the Forum Boarium, between the main front of the expansion of Ostia under Claudius harbor, the salt warehouses and shipyards. The porta Trigemina connected the city with Via Ostiensis. Notorious were the accumulations of beggars at the gate. At the gate stood a statue of Lucius Minucius, which led to the presumption that porta Trigemina would be equated with the porta Minucia.

That the name of the gate of three juxtaposed arched openings of the door comes, can reasonably be excluded, since this kind designs are not required prior to the time of Sulla. Alternatively, one suspects that the renewed investment in the Augustan period consisted of three mutually staggered gates.

The porta Trigemina was the scene of violent battles at the end of the Gracchi, as the consular army forced the followers of the Gracchi, among others, in the gate and down made ​​.