Rione Alto
Rione Alto is a district of Naples, built at the turn of the 1960s and 70s in the Arenella district, near the hospital area. Etymology and history It owes its name to the fact that it is located in the highest (in Italian, ''alto'') part of the Vomero hill, a very sparsely populated rural area until the mid-twentieth century, built in an imposing way only in the sixties, when the spaces in Vomero ran out, the restriction of inability to build around the Giovanni Pascale hospital was circumvented, thus making possible one of the most profitable speculative interventions in the urban history of Naples, determined by the very high increase in value acquired by the building areas of the Rione Alto. The entrepreneur and engineer Corrado Ferlaino talked about the construction of the neighborhood in an interview: Urban planning The structure of the Rione Alto is mainly made up of a network of rather narrow streets, resulting from the small spaces left free between the variou ...
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A (; plural: ) is a neighbourhood in several Italian cities. A is a territorial subdivision. The larger administrative subdivisions in Rome are the , with the being used only in the historic centre. The word derives from the Latin , the 14 regions of Augustan Rome, 14 subdivisions of Rome imposed by Augustus.The word rione
in the ''Treccani'' dictionary on-line The term has been adopted as a synonym of in the Italian .

See also

* Circoscrizione * Frazione * Località * Quartiere * Rioni of Rome * Sestiere * Terziere

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