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.

[1][2] The passage is redeveloping during the Middle Ages in real city gate,[3] and fortified in 1546 by Vauban under Charles Quint.

[1][2] The Porte taillée is classified Monument historique since 1944.

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