Porte taillée

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{{Infobox Historic building

|name = Porte taillée

|image = Porte Taillée Besançon.JPG

|caption = General view of the building, from Fort of Bregille (2009).

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|location_town = Besançon

|location_country = France

|architect = Romans, Vauban

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|construction_start_date = Ancient Rome to 1546.

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|owner = City of Besançon

|style = City gate

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The Porte taillée (French for carved gate) is a city gate located in Besançon (France). It was drilled in the rock of Saint-Étienne hill by the Romans under Vespasian or Marcus Aurelius, for the aqueduc of Besançon between Vaire-Arcier and square Castan.Alexandre Guenard, Besançon : description historique des monuments et établissements publics de cette ville, Baudin, 1860, 354 p, pages 45 to 47 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=lwpCAAAAcAAJ&dq=Porte+Taill%C3%A9e%2C+Besan%C3%A7on&pg=PA46 link]).[https://www.estrepublicain.fr/doubs/2013/08/16/la-porte-taillee-19-siecles-d-histoire La Porte taillée, 19 siècles d’histoire] on L'Est Républicain. The passage is redeveloping during the Middle Ages in real city gate,Hector Tonon, Jean-François Culot, Marie-Édith Henckel, Annie Mathieu, Jacques Mathieu, Georges Bidalot, Jacqueline Bévalot, Paul Broquet, Jean-Claude Monti, Anne Porro, Jacques Breton, Jean-Claude Grappin, Pierre-Louis Bréchat, Yves Mercier et Pierre Riobé, Mémoires de Bregille, Besançon, Cêtre, 2009, 312 p. ({{ISBN|978-2-87823-196-0}}), page 38. and fortified in 1546 by Vauban under Charles Quint. The Porte taillée is classified Monument historique since 1944.[https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00101466 Notice no PA00101466] of Base Mérimée.