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Lungotevere Prati is the stretch of
Lungotevere Prati is the stretch of Lungotevere
Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river Tiber within the city of Rome.
The building of the Lungoteveres required the demolition of the former edifices along the river banks and the constr ...
that links Via Ulpiano to Via Vittoria Colonna in the rione
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 su ...
Prati
Prati is the 22nd ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XXII. It belongs to the Municipio I since 2013, while previously, along with Borgo and ''quartieri'' Trionfale and Della Vittoria, it was part of the Municipio XVII.
Its coat of ...
in Rome (Italy).
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The Lungotevere takes its name from the neighboring area, formerly called ''prata'' (Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
for "meadows") due to the presence of large green spaces mainly inhabited by peasants; it was established as per resolution dated July 20, 1887.
Along the Lungotevere rises the Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio
Sacro Cuore di Gesù in Prati (Italian for "Sacred Heart of Jesus in Prati"), also known as Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Italian for "Sacred Heart of the Suffrage"), is a catholic church in the centre of Rome (Italy), rising in the rione Prati, host ...
, built by Giuseppe Gualandi between 1894 and 1917.
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Prati is the 22nd ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XXII. It belongs to the Municipio I since 2013, while previously, along with Borgo and ''quartieri'' Trionfale and Della Vittoria, it was part of the Municipio XVII.
Its coat of ...
Streets in Rome R. XXII Prati