Example sentences for: porta

How can you use “porta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The major building of importance here is the Iglesia Porta Coeli (Church of the Gate of Heaven), a tiny terra-cotta chapel and convent founded in 1606.

  • St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.

  • The Sunday morning flea market at Porta Portese in Trastevere is as much fun for the people watching as for the occasional bargains.

  • Where the palazzo joins the basilica’s southernmost flank is the Porta della Carta (Gate of the Paper, where the doge posted his decrees and scribes gathered).

  • In an area stretching from the permanently traffic-jammed Piazza Dante, between Via San Biagio dei Librai and Via Tribunali and over to the Porta Capuana, the popular image of old Naples survives.


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