Porta Vigentina was one of the city gates in the Spanish walls of Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy

Italy

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. The gate has been demolished, but the phrase "Porta Vigentina" is still used to refer to the district ("quartiere

Quartiere

A quartiere is a subdivision of certain Italian towns. The word is from quarto, or fourth, and was thus properly used only for towns divided into four neighborhoods. The English word "quarter" to mean a neighborhood A quartiere (plural: quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns. The...

") where the gate used to be, part of the Zone 5 administrative division of Milan.

The gate controlled access to Milan via the "Strada Vigentina" road, connecting the city to Pavia

Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...

. In turn, the road was named after the town of Vigentino

Vigentino

Vigentino is a district of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 5 administrative division, located south of the city centre. Before 1923, Vigentino was an autonomous, rural comune...

(now part of Milan), located on that road, 20 miles from Pavia.