Porta Nuova, city gate in Ravenna, Italy

Porta Nuova is a historic city gate in Ravenna that marks one of the main entrances to the old town. The structure is built from gray stone with a large arched passageway in the center, flanked by sturdy walls on both sides that once connected to the city's fortification system.

Porta Nuova was erected between 1580 and 1585 about 150 metres from the earlier Porta San Lorenzo, which was in poor condition; it was named Porta Gregoriana after Pope Gregory XIII and built under Giovanni Pietro Ghisleri, president of Romagna. A century later Cardinal Giovanni Stefano Donghi restored it for the new Pamphilio canal, whose dock ended before the gate, and it was renamed Porta Pamphilia after Innocent X. After Italian unification it was also called Porta Garibaldi.

The gate's official names changed with its patrons: Porta Gregoriana honoured Pope Gregory XIII, who reigned when it was built, and Porta Pamphilia honoured Innocent X Pamphili after the Pamphilio canal was inaugurated in 1653. Two epigraphs on the outer facade record that event. After Italian unification it was also called Porta Garibaldi, but the unofficial Porta Nuova prevailed.

Porta Nuova stands at the southern end of Via di Roma, about 150 metres from where the old Porta San Lorenzo stood. From 1883 to 1929 the Forlì–Ravenna tramway ran directly beneath its arch, and the iron gate of Porta Alberoni was fitted to the arch in 1885 after that gate was demolished for the railway. Look for the two epigraphs placed on the outer facade in 1654.

The gate's inner wall carries a marble plaque placed in 1997 for the 53rd anniversary of Ravenna's liberation at the end of the Second World War, alongside two small memorial stones for Francesco Segurini and Mario Montanari, who died in 1921 and 1944. From 1883 to 1929 the Forlì–Ravenna tramway ran directly beneath the arch.