The gate is at the east end of the southern fortifications wall of Roman city Emona, nowadays Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia. In the 1920s the city authorities wanted to remove the ruins, but the most famous Slovenian arhitect Jože Plečnik the architect of this city quarter's renovation - and conservator France Stele - project initiator - managed to change their minds. The wall was renovated and changed a bit with the addition of a columns at the south city gate.
The gate is nowadays used as a connection of a street and a small park inside Emona, inside the fortifications.