Description
Civita Castellana, Italy: detail of the Borgia Gate. It was the outer gate, beyond the ancient Faliscan gate of the town. It was built by Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, during the pontificate of Calixtus III (145S-1458), reusing marble architectural fragments expropriated from a funerary monument of the 1st century A.D. The inscription on the keystone of the arch and relief fraqments come from the mausoleum-tomb of Glitius Gallius, a Roman tribune.