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Municipio I
Municipio I is an administrative subdivision of the municipality of Rome, encompassing the centre of the city. It was first created by Rome's city council on 19 January 2001 and has a president who is elected during the mayoral elections. On 11 March 2013 its borders were modified and it was expanded with the incorporation of part of the abolished ''Municipio XVII''. Since then all the rioni of Rome, which are the city's historic districts, form part of Municipio I together with the localities ''Delle Vittorie'' and ''Eroi''. Subdivision Municipio I is divided into 11 localities: Rioni Since 2013 the territory includes all 22 ''rioni'': R.I '' Monti'', R.II ''Trevi'', R.III ''Colonna'', R.IV ''Campo Marzio'', R.V '' Ponte'', R.VI ''Parione'', R.VII ''Regola'', R.VIII ''Sant'Eustachio'', R.IX '' Pigna'', R.X ''Campitelli'', R.XI '' Sant'Angelo'', R.XII '' Ripa'', R.XIII ''Trastevere'', R.XIV '' Borgo'', R.XV ''Esquilino'', R.XVI '' Ludovisi'', R.XVII ''Sallustiano'', R.XVIII ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Italy
The regions of Italy ( it, regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. There are twenty regions, five of which have higher autonomy than the rest. Under the Italian Constitution, each region is an autonomous entity with defined powers. With the exception of the Aosta Valley (since 1945) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (since 2018), each region is divided into a number of provinces (''province''). History During the Kingdom of Italy, regions were mere statistical districts of the central state. Under the Republic, they were granted a measure of political autonomy by the 1948 Italian Constitution. The original draft list comprised the Salento region (which was eventually included in Apulia); ''Friuli'' and ''Venezia Giulia'' were separate regions, and Basilicata was named ''Lucania''. Abruzzo and Molise were identified as separate regions in the first draft, but were later merged into ''Abru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponte (rione Of Rome)
Ponte is the 5th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. V, and is located in Municipio I. Its name (meaning "bridge" in Italian) comes from Ponte Sant'Angelo, which connects Ponte with the rione of Borgo. This bridge was built by Emperor Hadrian (and originally was named after him ''Pons Aelius'') in 134 AD to connect his mausoleum to the rest of the city. Though Pope Sixtus V changed the ''rione'' limits, so that the bridge belongs now to Borgo, not to Ponte anymore, the area has kept its name and a bridge as its coat of arms. History In ancient Rome, the area belonged to the IX Augustan region called ''Circus Flaminius'', that was a part of the Campus Martius. Nero built another bridge, that was called '' Neronianus'' or ''triumphalis'' because the Via Triumphalis, the Triumphal Way, passed over it: starting with Titus, the victorious Emperors celebrating their Triumphs entered Rome marching through it. Nero's bridge was also called ''Pons Vaticanus'' (meaning "V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celio (rione Of Rome)
Celio () is the 19th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XIX, and is located within the Municipio I. Its coat of arms depicts the bust of an African, with an elephant headdress with golden tusks on a silver background, in memory of an African bust that was found in Via Capo d'Africa. History Up to 1870, the area was moderately inhabited, with some major religious building and many archaeological remains appearing in the vast filed and vineyards. Following to the unification of Italy, the district was among the first to be urbanized, between 1872 and 1873, with new service buildings and residences for the newcomers. Particularly, a military hospital was built on the summit of the Caelian hill between 1885 and 1891, close to the medieval site of Santo Stefano in Formis, an ancient monastery with an annexed hospital. Up until the postwar period, the road scheme has been reworked in the lower part of the ''rione'', near the Colosseo, and in 1968 a big public housing com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castro Pretorio
Castro Pretorio is the 18th ''rione'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials R. XVIII, and it is located within the Municipio I. The ''rione'' takes its name by the ruins of the '' Castrum Praetorium'', the barracks of the Praetorian Guard, included in the Aurelian Walls. History During the Imperial age, the area belonged to the ''regio'' '' Alta Semita'' (Latin for "high pathway"). At that time, a huge part of the present-day ''rione'' was gloomy and infamous, as it housed the ''Campus Sceleratus'', a large area just outside Porta Collina (between Via Venti Settembre and Piazza dell'Indipendenza) where Vestal virgins that infringed their chastity vows were buried alive. Another landmark of the borough was the '' Castra Praetoria'', the barracks of the Praetorian Guard established by Tiberius between AD 21 and AD 23, later incorporated into the Aurelian Walls. Between 298 and 306, to serve the densely populated quarters of the Quirinal, Viminal and Esquiline hills, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sallustiano
Sallustiano is the 17th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XVII. It is located within the Municipio I and the name refers to the ancient Gardens of Sallust (''Horti Sallustiani''), which were located here. History During the Augustan age, the area belonged to the ''regio'' '' Alta Semita'' (Latin for "high pathway"). Here were the ''Horti Sallustiani'', which gave the ''rione'' its name, and the Temple of Venus Erycina, in the area between Via Piave and Via Calabria, no less important than the villa of Sallust, to the point that the golden mirror of the goddess on a blue background was chosen as the coat of arms of the ''rione''. The famous Ludovisi Throne, found during the urbanization works in the area, was most likely part of the temple. Between Via Flavia and Via Servio Tullio stood the temple dedicated to the goddess Fortuna, while the circus of Flora was probably located between Via XX Settembre and Via Boncompagni. The Sallustian obelisk, found in the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovisi (rione Of Rome)
Ludovisi () is the 16th ''rione'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials R. XVI and located within the Municipio I. Its coat of arms depicts three golden bands and a golden dragon on a red background. It is the coat of arms of the noble Ludovisi family, which here owned the beautiful villa bearing the same name. The villa and the surrounding gardens, except for a single building, the Villa Aurora, were destroyed at the end of the 19th century to build the new district. Geography The ''rione'' borders with: * northward, '' quartieri'' Pinciano (Q. III) and Salario (Q. IV); * eastward, Sallustiano (R. XVII); * southward, Trevi (R. II) and Colonna (R. III); * westward, Campo Marzio (R. IV). History The ''rione'' was born after the unification of Italy (such as San Saba, Testaccio and Prati), from the convention, signed in 1886, between the Boncompagni (heirs of the Ludovisi) and the Municipality of Rome. With this act, the Lords of Piombino assigned to the housing de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esquilino (rione Of Rome)
Esquilino is the 15th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XV, and is Located within the Municipio I. It is named after the Esquiline Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome. Its coat of arms bears two figures: a tree and three green mountains, all on a silver background. It is a very cosmopolitan neighbourhood, with large numbers of immigrants from Asia and North Africa. History Esquilino is part of the historic center of Rome, where urbanization developed in ancient times. Along with ''Palatina'', ''Collina'' and ''Suburana'', the area was one of the four ''regiones'' established by Servius Tullius: until Emperor Augustus adopted a new administrative subdivision of the city, the region included the whole area that is part of the modern ''rione'' Monti. The territory of the modern ''rione'' Esquilino, however, has always been regarded as the frontier of the inner city. Initially at the edge of the Servian Wall, whose '' agger'' was located in the area, during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borgo (rione Of Rome)
Borgo (sometimes called also I Borghi) is the 14th ''Rioni of Rome, rione'' of Rome, Italy. It is identified by the initials R. XIV and is included within Municipio I. Its coat of arms shows a lion (after the name "Leonine City", which was also given to the district), lying in front of three mounts and a star. These – together with a Heraldry, lion rampant – are also part of the coat of arms of Pope Sixtus V, who annexed Borgo as the 14th rione of Rome. History Roman Age: ''Ager Vaticanus'' During the Roman age, the Borgo district was part of the 14th 14 regions of the Augustan Rome, Regio (Regio XIV Transtiberim) and was named ''Ager Vaticanus'', after the auguries (''vaticinii'') performed there by the Etruscan civilisation, Etruscan ''Augurs''. Since it lay outside the Pomerium (the religious city border inside which burial was forbidden) and was plagued by malaria, this territory was used as a burial place. Some tombs reached notable proportions, including the ''Terebinth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripa (rione Of Rome)
Ripa is the 12th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XII, and it is located in the Municipio I. The coat of arms of the ''rione'' depicts a white rudder on a red background, to remind the port of Ripa Grande, that was placed in Trastevere, but faced the ''rione''. History The borough has always been urbanized, although not intensively, since the Ancient Rome: at that time, the area included three ''regiones'', ''Circus Maximus'', ''Piscina Publica'' and ''Aventinus''. As of 4th century, the bank of the River Tiber in the ''rione'' was called ''Ripa Graeca'', after a Greek community that settled there and increased during the following centuries, particularly in 8th century, when the area was inhabited by Greek and Latin people escaped from the iconoclastic persecutions led by Leo III the Isaurian. During the Middle Ages, the northern part of the ''rione'' remained unpopulated, with the only exceptions of some fortified monastery and a baronial castle, the ''Rocc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sant'Angelo (rione Of Rome)
Sant'Angelo is the 11th ''rioni of Rome, rione'' of Rome, Italy, located in Municipio I. Often written as ''rione XI - Sant'Angelo'', it has a coat of arms with an angel on a red background, holding a palm branch in its left hand. In another version, the angel holds a sword in its right hand and a Weighing scale, scale in its left. Sant'Angelo, the smallest of Rome's rioni, lies along the Tiber river east of Isola Tiberina, Tiber Island. Rioni bordering this district, clockwise from north to south, include Regola (rione of Rome), Regola, Sant'Eustachio (rione of Rome), Sant'Eustachio, Pigna (rione of Rome), Pigna, Campitelli, and Ripa (rione of Rome), Ripa. Sant'Angelo's western border is the river. The rione's terrain is low and flat and, until the construction of the Lungotevere, particularly susceptible to flooding from the river. The historical significance of Sant'Angelo is mainly the result of the presence here of the Roman Ghetto. History Roman Age: ''Circus Flamini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campitelli
Campitelli is the 10th ''rioni of Rome, rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. X, and is located in the Municipio I. Its emblem consists of a black dragon's head on a white background. This symbol comes from the legend that Pope Silvester I threw out a dragon staying in the Forum Romanum. History Some of the major vestiges of the Ancient Rome are located in the area, such as the Palatine Hill, the Campidoglio and the Roman Forum. When in the Middle Ages the new administrative subdivision of the city was adopted, Campitelli was the 12th and last ''rione''. It was called ''Campitelli in Sancti Adriani'', after the deconsecrated church of Sant'Adriano al Foro. Since the 12th century, the Palazzo Senatorio became the seat of the ''Senatore di Roma'' (Senator of Rome), the principal civic authority of the city in the Middle Ages. The Palazzo Senatorio and the basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli are the only remaining features of the medieval construction industry in the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigna (rione Of Rome)
Pigna is the 9th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. IX, and belongs to the Municipio I. The name means "pine cone" in Italian, and the symbol of the ''rione'' is the colossal bronze pine cone, that stand above the '' Pigna''. The fountain, that was initially located in the Baths of Agrippa, now decorates a vast niche in the wall of the Vatican facing the ''Cortile della Pigna'', located in Vatican City. History In the Roman period, the giant bronze ''pigna'' that gives the name to the ''rione'' once decorated a fountain and the water flowed copiously from the top of the pine cone. The Pigna was moved first to the Old Basilica of Saint Peter, where Dante saw it and employed it in the '' Divina Commedia'' as a simile for the giant proportions of the face of Nimrod.Dante, ''Inferno'' xxxi. 58f In the 15th century it was moved to its current location, the upper end of Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere, which is now usually called in its honour the ''Cortile della Pigna' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
