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Why Portunus

At Portunus we aim to act as a facilitator to opening up your online gateways. With powerful web sites, e-commerce applications and wireless networking we aim to open all the doors onto the internet. We thrive on introducing our clients to the possibilities that new internet based technologies can offer. From building profitable online shops to facilitating a museum cataloguing of tens of thousands of objects and artefacts, we will never be short of new ideas and powerful, robust options.

Image of temple thanks to vitruvio.ch

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detail of temple

Portunus was a Roman god, protector of harbours and gates, supposedly also inventing navigation. Being god of the gates he was naturally the god of departure and return and, by extension, the god of all means of communication. There is a temple dedicated to Portunus on the banks of the Tiber which stood by the Portus Tiberinus in Roman times. The temple was turned into a Christian church in 872.

(Temple detail image thanks to Kalervo Koskimies)