Porte Noire

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The Black Gate of Besançon is a Gallo-Roman triumphal arch of 16.56 m (1 m buried by the leveling of time) built under Roman Emperor Marc Aurelius in the 2nd century, originally entirely decorated with fine sculptures depicting heroes and deities of Greek and Roman mythology as well as scenes of fighting, mostly erased by time. The Black Gate is classified as historical monuments by the list of 1840.