Porta facts for kids

Porta can refer to:

People

• Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer
• Bianca Della Porta (born 1991), Canadian ice hockey and rugby player
• Carlo Porta (1775–1821), Italian poet in the Milanese dialect
• Costanzo Porta (1528–1601), Italian composer of the Renaissance
• Giacomo della Porta (1532–1602), Italian sculptor and architect
• Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan physician and playwright
• Giovanni Porta (1675–1755), Italian composer
• Hugo Porta (born 1951), Argentinean rugby union footballer
• Livio Dante Porta (1923–2003), Argentinean engineer
• Miquel Porta (born 1957), Spanish epidemiologist and scholar
• Richard Porta (born 1983), Uruguayan Australian footballer

Places

• La Porta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica
• Porta (Barcelona) a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain
• Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France
• Porta, Thessaly, a pass and settlement in Thessaly, central Greece
• Porta, Xanthi, a district of Xanthi in Thrace, northeastern Greece
• Porta, the Hungarian name for Poarta village, Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania
• Porta del Sol, a tourism region in western Puerto Rico
• Porta Littoria, the name applied from 1939 to 1946 for the town of La Thuile in the Valle d’Aosta, Italy
• Porta Westfalica in Germany
• Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany

Convents

• Porta Coeli (Moravia), in the Czech Republic, a convent from 1239 after which an asteroid is named
• Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico), in San Germán, Puerto Rico

Railway stations

• Porta Alpina, a proposed railway station to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in southern Switzerland
• Porta Nuova, Turin, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy
• Verona Porta Nuova railway station, in Verona, northern Italy
• Porta Susa, a railway station in Turin, northern Italy
• Porta Gia Ton Ourano, a song recorded by Greek pop singer Elena Paparizou

City gates

• Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, now known as the Porta San Sebastiano
• Porta Asinaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Borsari, a Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy.
• Porta Capena, a gate in the Servian Wall near the Caelian Hill, in Rome
• Porta Capuana, an ancient city gate in Naples, southern Italy
• Porta Collina, a gate at the north end of the Servian Wall of Rome
• Porta de Santiago, a small gate house and the only remaining part of the A Famosa fortress in Malacca, Malaysia
• Porta Decumana, the back gate of a Roman castrum
• Porta Esquilina, a gate in the Servian Wall of Rome
• Porta Flaminia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Latina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Leoni, an ancient Roman gate in Verona, northern Italy
• Porta Liviana, a medieval gate in the walls of Padua, Italy
• Porta Maggiore, or Porta Prenestina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany
• Porta Nomentana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Ognissanti (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
• Porta Ostiensis, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Pia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Pinciana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Portese, a gate in the seventeenth-century Janiculum Walls of Rome
• Porta Portuensis (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Praetoria, the main gate of a Roman castrum
• Porta Praenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Prenestina (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
• Porta Salaria, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta San Giovanni (Rome), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta San Giovanni (San Gimignano), a gate in the walls of San Gimignano
• Porta San Giovanni (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
• Porta San Lorenzo, the ancient Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Palatina in Turin, Italy
• Porta San Pancrazio, a gate in the Janiculum district of Rome
• Porta San Paolo, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta San Sebastiano, the ancient Porta Appia, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Santa Croce (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
• Porta Savonarola (Padua), a gate in the walls of Padua
• Porta Settimiana, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Tiburtina, a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome
• Porta Trigemina, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome
• Porta del Popolo, once the Porta Flaminia, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome

Other

• Porta, a mobile GSM carrier of Ecuador owned by América Móvil
• Porta, the main brand of beer engine manufacturer Porter Lancastrian
• Porta a Porta, an Italian television talk show
• Porta-bote, a small, portable, foldable boat
• Porta cath, or port, or portacath, a small medical appliance that is installed beneath the skin
• Porta classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space
• Porta-Color, a portable color television
• Porta della Pescheria, the north portal of the Cathedral of Modena
• Porta hepatis, or transverse fissure of the liver
• Porta Hotel Antigua a hotel in Antigua
• Porta Hungarica, the Devín Gate or Hainburger Gate, a natural gate in the Danube valley at the border of Slovakia and Austria
• Porta-ledge, a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers
• Porta Obscura, an album by German gothic metal band Coronatus
• Porta potty, a portable toilet
• Porta Prima Augustus, a 2.04m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar
• Porta Westfalica (gorge), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Portakabin, an English trade name for a kind of portable building
• PortaPuTTY, a terminal emulator application
• Porta, a common misspelling of Kodak Portra film

See also

In Spanish: Porta (desambiguación) para niños

• Portanova (disambiguation)