Porta San Jacopo, City gate in Lucca, Italy

Porta San Jacopo is the northern gate of Lucca's walls, the most recent of them, built in 1931. It consists of a single passage set into the brick curtain wall, with no flanking towers of its own. Inside, a partly legible Fascist-era inscription survives on the gate's inner wall.

Porta San Jacopo is the most recent gate in Lucca's walls, built in 1931. It was first called Porta della Vittoria or Porta IV Novembre. Its construction closed the last opening in the northern stretch of the Renaissance wall circuit, which had been left without a gate for centuries.

Inside the gate, a fascist-era inscription survives, its letters partly displaced so that only fragments can still be read. The gate was first named Porta della Vittoria, also called Porta IV Novembre, before taking the name of San Jacopo.

The gate now serves as a main access route for motor traffic connecting the city's northern section to the center. Visitors should note that this passage sees heavy vehicle flow and functions primarily as a modern traffic junction.

The gate was first called Porta della Vittoria, also Porta IV Novembre, before taking the name San Jacopo. Inside, the fascist-era inscription was partly erased by shifting the individual letters that formed it, yet words can still be made out on the wall.