Porta Soprana

Genoa's Porta Soprana is one of the numerous openings in the broad city dividers, and has come to be one of the images of the pleased Maritime Republic – whose seven centuries of flexibility can be summed up in a string of customary applications like "The Proud", "The Mistress of the Seas", and "The Republic of the Magnificent".

The stupendous Porta Soprana is one of handful few surviving doors staying from the purported "Barbarossa dividers", worked in the vicinity of 1155 and 1159 and named after the Swabian Emperor who, amid his Second Italian Campaign in 1158, caught Milan and requested expenses from Genoa.

Consistent with her epithet, "The Proud" can't. As clarified in the "Annali del Caffaro" – an old book of accounts on Italian urban communities' birthplaces – "Since vestige, Roman Emperors had conceded and affirmed that the general population of Genoa would be unendingly free from any tax assessment.

They needed to stay faithful to the Empire, and needed to protect the ocean from Barbary privateers, however were not to be troubled something else".