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Porta Capena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (100 words) |
 | Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall near Caelian Hill, in Rome, formerly a sacred forest where Numa Pompilius and Egeria met. |
| Porta Capena square hosts the FAO headquarters and the Casino La Vignola Boccapaduli. |
| In the same square there was the obelisk of Axum, a war prey returned to Ethiopia in 2005. |
| ROMA -O- MATIC - Monuments and historical places (856 words) |
| After the construction of the Aurelian Walls that stretch became the city part of the ancient Appia Antica, enclosed into Porta Capena (which is between Celio e l'Aventino) and Porta San Sebastiano (almost Porta Appia) that today corresponds to the Via delle Terme Caracalla and the Via di Porta San Sebastiano. |
| It reaches the Largo delle Terme di Caracalla and crosses the Porta Ardeatina arriving to the Cristoforo Columbus that connects the centre of Rome with the EUR and the sea. |
| The Via di Porta San Sebastiano crosses all the park of the Scipioni and arrives to the Porta San Sebastiano from which the Appia Antica starts. |
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