Porta Romana Arch

Piazza Medaglie D'Oro 20122 Milano

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Restoration

The project is part of the additional restoration and consolidation of the Spanish Walls, sections between Viale Caldara, Piazza Medaglie d’Oro, Viale Filippetti and Viale Beatrice d'Este in Milan - 2006-2009.
Porta Romana Arch has always been considered the main entrance to the city of Milan, and it is located in the square called Medaglie d'Oro, inside the circle of the Spanish Walls towards south-east, where currently major roads flow, in part radials from the center, and partially corresponding to the ring roads that set it as an isolated monument, a kind of “traffic island”.

The conservation work carried out in 2008-2009 was divided according to the traditional categories of intervention: preliminary works, cleanings, fillings and sealing, consolidation of materials, protection works, complementary works.
Within these categories the individual interventions were related to the different materials present in the monument: natural stone materials such as strain Lombard, the Condoglia marble and granite of the memorial stones, artificial stone materials such as plaster and brick facing; metallic elements such as clamps and chains and the wooden door.

by Lorena Bauce e Rebecca Fant