Located in the
Quartiere San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is an urban zone in Rome, Italy. Administratively it was part of both Municipio II and Quarter VI Tiburtino.
It occupies roughly the two sides of the early stretch of Via Tiburtina, starting from Termini railway station and ending a ...
, the Policlinico Umberto I of
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
is the
polyclinic
A polyclinic (where ''poly'' means "many"; not to be confused with the homonym policlinic, where ''poli'' means "city" and which is sometimes used for a hospital's outpatient department) is a clinic or health care facility that provides both gen ...
of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the
Sapienza Università di Roma. The second largest public hospital in Italy (after the
Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
), its construction was mainly promoted by Italian physicians and politicians
Guido Baccelli
Guido Baccelli (25 November 1830 – 10 January 1916) was an Italian physician and statesman. One of the most renowned Italian physicians of the late 19th Century, he was Minister of Education of the then young Kingdom of Italy for six times an ...
and
Francesco Durante
Francesco Durante (31 March 1684 – 30 September 1755) was a Neapolitan composer.
Biography
He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Naples, and at an early age he entered the '' Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo'', in Naples, ...
and began in 1883 to plans by
Giulio Podesti and
Filippo Laccetti, and was completed 20 years later, with the opening presided over by the then rector
Luigi Galassi and by
Umberto I of Italy
Umberto I ( it, Umberto Rainerio Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia; 14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900) was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination on 29 July 1900.
Umberto's reign saw Italy attempt colo ...
, after whom it is named. It is served by the
Policlinico Metro station.
External links
Official site of the Policlinico
{{Authority control
Hospital buildings completed in 1903
Hospitals in Rome
Hospitals established in 1903
1903 establishments in Italy
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