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    Porta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after...
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    After a few hours, the Italian army breached the Aurelian Walls near Porta Pia, through where the troops flooded into Rome. 49 Italian soldiers and 19...
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  • Look up PIA or pia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pia or PIA may refer to: Pia, Pyrénées-Orientales, a French commune Pia, Iran, a village in Razavi...
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    The Monument to the Porta Pia Breach of Breach of Porta Pia (in Italian, Monumento a la Breccia di Porta Pia) is a memorial located on 101 Corso d'Italia...
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    Porta Nomentana was one of the gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. It is located along viale del Policlinico, around 70 m east of Porta Pia....
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    Raffaele Cadorna, entered Rome through a breach in the Aurelian Walls near Porta Pia. Roma Capitale - Département des ressources technologiques - services...
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    clockwise: Porta del Popolo (Porta Flaminia) – here begins via Flaminia Porta Pinciana Porta Salaria – here begins via Salaria Porta Pia – here begins...
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    purposes of the Italian State and gave rise to the myth of the Breach of Porta Pia, in reality, a tame affair involving a cannonade at close range that demolished...
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  • accuracy. Segre did give a command to fire and contributed to the fall of Porta Pia, but his order was not the first. Rather, the artilleries of the 9th and...
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  • the Villa Albani Villa Torlonia (Rome) another Villa Torlonia, Rome, in Porta Pia, also known as Villa Bracciano, now the place of the British Embassy....
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