Italy, Rome, Porta San Giovanni (00:00:18)

$40.00

Porta San Giovanni: It is made up of a single grand arch built for Pope Gregory XIII in opera forse by Giacomo della Porta or, it is argued, Giacomo del Duca, who had collaborated with Michelangelo on the Porta Pia. The confusion is because the chronology of the era merely speaks of a famous architect called Giacomo. Popular tradition insists the architect was Della Porta, for he died in crowds at the gate, “which he had built” of violent indigestion brought on by melons and watermelons, returning from a trip to the Castelli Romani.