Porta Alchemica

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Alchemical Door
Porta Alchemica
The Alchemical Door
General information
Location	Rome, Italy
Coordinates	41°53′43″N 12°30′14″E / 41.89541222°N 12.50377122°E / 41.89541222; 12.50377122
Construction started	1678
Completed	1680
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Massimiliano Palombara

The Alchemical Door, also known as the Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal (Italian: Porta Alchemica or Porta Magica), is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara, marquis of Pietraforte, in his residence, the villa Palombara [it], which was located on the Esquiline Hill, near Piazza Vittorio, in Rome.^[1] This is the only one of five former gates of the villa that remains; there was a lost door on the opposite side dating them to 1680 and four other lost inscriptions on the walls of the mansion inside the villa.