Arco di Porta Ticinese in Milan, etching by Naymiller and watercolor by Landini, 1840

Arco di Porta Ticinese in Milan, etching by Naymiller and watercolor by Landini, circa 1840, aquatint. Included in the work “Souvenir de Milan” published in Milan at Bossi Antonio Piazza del Duomo no. 4079 [1828-40]. “Milan in Old Prints” by Paolo Arrigoni 1969 vol. I no. 163, p. 54. In good condition.

The gates were designed by Luigi Cagnola in a neoclassical style and built between 1802-1814. In 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a Latin inscription “paci populorum Sospitae” (“to the peaceful liberation of nations”) was placed on them.

The gate was positioned diagonally over the naviglio Grande dock, beyond the Spanish walls, to force those entering the city to pay a toll.

In traditional Milanese popular culture, it is also known as porta Cicca, from the Spanish “chica,” meaning “small.”

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