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of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. XVII. The toponym also indicates the Urban Zone 2E of the Municipio II of Rome. The eastern area of the quarter is known as the African Quarter, due to the presence of odonyms relating to the colonies of the Kingdom of Italy.

Geography

The quarter is located in the north-central area of the city. It borders: * to the north, with the

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Z. I

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, along the river Aniene in the stretch between the

Ponte Salario The Ponte Salario, also called Ponte Salaro during the Middle Ages, is a road bridge in Rome, Italy, whose origins date back to the Roman period. In antiquity, it lay outside the city limits, 3 km north of the Porta Collina, at the point whe ...

and the bridge of the FL1 regional railway. * to the north-east, with the quarter Q. XVI

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, along the river Aniene in the stretch between the bridge of the FL1 regional railway and the bridge of Via delle Valli, then between the FL1 regional railway and

Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently exte ...

. * to the south-east, with the quarter Q. V Nomentano, along Via Nomentana, the FL1 regional railway and Viale Regina Margherita. * to the south-west, with the quarter Q. IV Salario, along Viale Regina Margherita in the stretch between Via Nomentana and Via Salaria. * to the north-west, with the quarter Q. II Parioli, along Via Salaria in the stretch between Viale Regina Margherita and Ponte Salario.

History

The territory before the urbanization

The first evidence of human presence in the quarter dates back to prehistoric times, when some populations settled in the area of the so-called '' Sedia del Diavolo'' and of ''Monte delle Gioie''. Later, in historical times, a

Sabine The Sabines (; lat, Sabini; it, Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. The Sabines di ...

settlement rose on the Mount Antenne, the remains of which are still visible today; according to the legend, ''

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'' was one of the three villages that underwent the famous

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. Just few remains survive from the archaic and

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ages, while the area became very popular following the construction of several catacombs, such as the ancient catacomb of Priscilla, built on the villa of the ''gens'' Acilia. Furthermore, the area is crossed by a section of the Via Salaria, a consular road of enormous importance that connected Rome to

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, so called for the trade of

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(

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: ''sal''). Nonetheless, the modern road of the same name follows the route of the ''Salaria Nova'', built under the Emperor Nerva. In the years following the

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(313 AD), a monumental basilica dedicated to St. Agnes, whose family villa rose in Via Nomentana, was built. Next to it, the empress

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had her mausoleum built in the second half of the century. Due to its large size, the basilica soon decayed, so as to induce

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(625–628) to commission the current Byzantine-style basilica (

Sant'Agnese fuori le mura The church of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls ( it, Sant'Agnese fuori le mura) is a titulus church, minor basilica in Rome, on a site sloping down from the Via Nomentana, which runs north-east out of the city, still under its ancient name. What a ...

). Around these two monuments, during the

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and at the beginning of the

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, the complex of the

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was built. During the Renaissance and the following centuries, the area of the quarter housed only a few noble villas and rustic buildings (farmhouses); in one of these, on the Via Nomentana, Giuseppe Garibaldi lived at the time of the

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Urbanization and birth of the quarter

Following the Italian unification, the area of Mount Antenne was fortified with large bastions, moats and with an imposing powder keg, since its position was particularly suitable for defending the northern side of the city. Its slopes house since 1906 the seat of the ''Parioli Tennis Club'', still active today and famous for having raised numerous champions. The first urbanization of the territory took place with the urban plan issued in 1909 by the architect

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, but the quarter was officially born only in 1926 with the name Savoia, from the nearby royal residence (the present

Villa Ada Villa Ada is a park in Rome, Italy, with a surface of it is the second largest in the city after Villa Doria Pamphili. It is located in the northeastern part of the city. History The wooded expanse was owned by the Italian royal House of Savoy i ...

); the event is commemorated by a plaque today in Via Topino, near Piazza Verbano. In the first thirty years of the century the area maintained its destination for quality, or even luxury, residential buildings: it is the period of the "''villini''" and the Quartiere Coppedè. The intensive urbanization begins in the 1930s. Large, often pretentious condominiums were built on the areas of villas which had been parceled out for this purpose, such as Villa Lancellotti and Villa Chigi (of the latter, only a public park and a private residence survive): housing for civil servants or buildings granted to cooperatives (for example, the Cooperative of the railway workers occupied the area near Piazza Crati). Between 1924 and 1930, with the aim of providing a green lung to an intensively built neighborhood, the architect Raffaele De Vico built the Parco Virgiliano (or Parco Nemorense), which was inaugurated in 1936 on the occasion of the

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ian bimillennium. Following the birth of the Republic, in 1946 the quarter took on its current name from its main street. In the 1970s the area was the subject of a new building speculation, which caused the demolition of ''Tor Fiorenza'', a 16th-century fortified farm where

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children were brought to drink the fresh milk. The northern part of the quarter, from Piazza Annibaliano to the Rome-Florence railway, is commonly called ''African quarter'', due to its odonomastic inspired by the African colonies of the

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(Via Tigrè, Via Tripolitania, Via Gadames, Viale Libia; see below). The original nucleus of this "sub-quarter", originally intended for the families of the railway workers, was built in the early 1920s, forming a quadrilateral in the area adjacent to Via Tripoli. Within this quadrilateral, Via Tobruk, Via Derna, Via Cirenaica and Piazza Misurata were also marked out, as well as Via Benadir and Via Migiurtinia outside its perimeter. These streets were added to Via Asmara and Via Massaua, side streets of Via Nomentana, which had been created shortly before to connect Villa Anziani. After

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, the railway workers' quarter, which consisted of some forty buildings, was completely demolished. As evidence of its past presence, part of the road system remains – with the exception of Via Tobruk, Piazza Misurata and Via Derna, which have been deleted (the name "Derna" was later attributed to another street) – and well as some buildings, favoured villas and more popular palaces, on Via Beandir, Via Homs, Via Tripolitania, Via Cirenaica and Via Migiurtinia. In the old quarter Pietro Germi shot ''

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'' in 1958, while all around, along the axis Viale Eritrea-Viale Libia, the African quarter was being created as it appears today. A school building, some edifices of the

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, a parking lot and two residential buildings were built in place of the quarter of the railway workers.

Lesser history

* During World War II, a curious episode involved the quarter: it was said that on full moon nights, in the area of Piazza Vescovio, a

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terrified the inhabitants with frightening screams coming from some gardens: he was actually a mentally ill man, later identified and hospitalized in an asylum. * The building in Via Chiana nr. 87 housed the first

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ever built in Italy for a council house intended for civil servants, inaugurated by Benito Mussolini himself, who, during the official speech, seems to have missed out the phrase: «''... so it will be much easier for you to reach the musters in time!''» * Partly removed is the incident involving the population in early June 1944, when the RSI soldiers spread the false and uncontrolled rumor, which could trigger a collective madness, that the fleeing German troops had undermined the whole quarter and that there would even be a load of unexploded ammunitions. A flow of people reached

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, where many spent the night in the open air despite the official denials and the appeals by radio. * During the years of the

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, the quarter became famous for the Piper Club, a celebrated public house, inaugurated on 17 February 1965 and linked to many personalities of that time: it hosted the debut of

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and the performances of Pink Floyd,

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and

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, who, after the concert, dived in the Fontana delle Rane in Piazza Mincio with their clothes on. Over time it has become more known for the ''movida'' often resulting in vandalism than for the celebrities passing. * The quarter was still the talk of the town during the years of lead, due to the numerous political killings that took place there; among others, that of the magistrate Vittorio Occorsio, assassinated in 1976, four years after that of the policeman Francesco Evangelista in front of the Liceo classico statale "Giulio Cesare". In those same years, in the clashes between opposing political factions, two young right-wing militants of the organization ''Fronte della Gioventù'' (connected to the Italian Social Movement) also died: Francesco Cecchin, aged just seventeen, who died on 16 June 1979 following an attack near Piazza Vescovio, and Paolo Di Nella, who died on 9 February 1983, after falling into an irreversible coma due to a beatdown near Piazza Gondar. * In the 1980s, the writer Ornella Angeloni set in the quarter her crime novel ''Caffè Ciamei'', the story of a long chain of crimes over forty years. * Among the public houses in the quarter is the Tortuga Café in Piazza Trasimeno, in front of the Giulio Cesare high school, opened in 1953 and mentioned in the song ''Compagno di scuola'' by

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Monuments and places of interest

Civil buildings

Quartiere Coppedè

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style, designed by the architect Gino Coppedè. The gate of Piazza Mincio 2, dating back to 1926 and the last work by the master's hand, is an exact replica of a scenery for the 1914 movie ''

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''.

Villa Albani

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, also called Albani-Torlonia, which stretches between Via Salaria and Viale Regina Margherita, has been for 50 years the center of European culture, a compulsory stop for the most important travelers and the driving force of cultural phenomena such as Neoclassicism and

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understood as History of Art. The villa was built in the mid-18th century by Cardinal

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– the nephew of Pope Clement XI, a refined connoisseur of antiquity and protector of artists, including

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– to keep his collections of ancient art, chosen on the advice of

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. Thus were born the "Laboratory of Neoclassicism", in which Piranesi also operated, and an "Art Gallery", for centuries inaccessible, which houses works by Niccolò da Foligno,

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, Gherardo delle Notti,

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, Ribera,

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vi ...

Giulio Romano Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-cent ...

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

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, Vanvitelli.

Religious buildings

* Sant'Agnese fuori le mura monumental complex, in via Nomentana ** Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura ** Mausoleum of Santa Costanza *

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, in Piazza Buenos Aires * San Giuda Taddeo, in Via Rovereto * San Saturnino, in Piazza San Saturnino * Chapel of Our Lady of the Sacred Rosary, in Via Lambro * Santa Emerenziana, in Piazza Santa Emerenziana * Sacri Cuori di Gesù e Maria a Tor Fiorenza, in Via Poggio Moiano * Santa Maria Goretti, in Via di Santa Maria Goretti * Santissima Trinità a Villa Chigi, in Viale Arrigo Boito

School buildings

* Liceo classico statale Giulio Cesare, in Corso Trieste :Built in 1935–36 by the architect Cesare Valle * Liceo scientifico "Amedeo Avogadro", with the main seat in 26, Via Brenta (within the Quartiere Coppedè) and a branch in Via Cirenaica (within the Quartiere Africano) * Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore "Giosuè Carducci", in Via Asmara * Istituto Comprensivo Via Volsinio: ** Secondary school "Esopo", in Via Volsinio ** Primary school "Giuseppe Mazzini", in via Volsinio *: Built in 1930–31 by the architect Cesare Valle. The school was formerly entitled to Sandro Italico Mussolini, nephew of Benito Mussolini. ** Primary and secondary school "Ugo Bartolomei", in via Santa Maria Goretti * Istituto comprensivo "Luigi Settembrini", in Via Sebenico. * Istituto comprensivo "Sinopoli – Ferrini": ** Secondary school "Giuseppe Sinopoli", in Via Mascagni ** Public primary school "Contardo Ferrini", in Largo di Villa Chigi

Archaeological sites

* Sedia del Diavolo, in Piazza Elio Callistio. Tomb of the second century AD

Catacombs

* Catacomb of Priscilla, in Via Salaria * Catacombs of Saint Agnes, in Via Nomentana, under the basilica * Catacomb of Traso, in Via Yser at the intersection with Via Salaria * Catacombs of via Anapo, in Via Anapo at the intersection with via Salaria

Green areas

* Parco Virgiliano (also called ''Parco Nemorense'') * Villa Chigi * Villa Leopardi * Villa Paganini

Bridges

* Ponte di via delle Valli *

Cinema

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'' among the buildings, later demolished, of the railway workers' quarter. Also in the 1950s, the scene of the chase between

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and

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in '' Cops and Robbers'' begins at the end of Viale Somalia and continues on a hill where the future Via Olimpica was built. In 1953, the house of the protagonist of ''

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'' by

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is located in the complex of the railway workers' buildings in Via Mancinelli The quarter is also the location of the movie '' The Sign of Venus'', with

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and Sophia Loren, which shows its aspect in the 1950s. Some scenes from ''

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'' are set in the area.

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meets her boyfriend in front of the barracks "Bianchi", right on the railway bridge: in the background you can see the first buildings on Viale Etiopia, while all around there is only countryside. In the opening scenes of the movie ''

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'' (1960),

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enters a door in Via Dora in the Quartiere Coppedè, while during the movie he walks along Viale Etiopia still under construction. A breef shot in '' Be Sick... It's Free'', with Alberto Sordi, shows Viale Libia near the

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department store. The same UPIM store in 1960 is the workplace of the three protagonists of ''Caccia al marito'' with Sandra Mondaini, while in '' We All Loved Each Other So Much'' by Ettore Scola, Piazza Caprera is used to mark a change of time. Scola himself 20 years later will set his '' Mario, Maria and Mario'', with

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, in the historic headquarters of the PCI in Via Sebino. Due to its peculiar architecture, the Quartiere Coppedè was chosen by the director Dario Argento, residing in the quarter Trieste, as the background for some scenes of his movies ''

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'' (1970) and ''

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'' (1980). Among all the sequences, one of the most moving images is the vision of a totally deserted Via Nomentana in the 1941 small masterpiece of De Sica '' Teresa Venerdì'', set in the streets of the quarter. In more recent times, the public high school "Giulio Cesare" has been the backdrop for the fiction ''Piper'' and the movie '' Scusa ma ti chiamo amore'' by Federico Moccia.

Anthropic geography

Urban planning

The territory of the quarter coincides with the homonymous urban zone 2E and with the western part of the urban zone 2D ''Salario''.

Odonyms

;Italian lakes and rivers One of the main streets of the quarter is Via Nemorense, which takes its name from the

Lake Nemi Lake Nemi ( it, Lago di Nemi, la, Nemorensis Lacus, also called Diana's Mirror, la, Speculum Dianae) is a small circular volcanic lake in the Lazio region of Italy south of Rome, taking its name from Nemi, the largest town in the area, that ...

. Many streets near it bear the name of important Italian lakes: * Avigliana, Benaco (Lake Garda), Clisio (Lake Orta), Lariana (Lake Como),

Ledro Ledro (in local dialect: ''Léder'') is an Italian ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in northern Italy. It was created on January 1, 2010, by the union of the former ''comuni'' of Pieve di Ledro, Bezzecca, Concei, Molina di Ledro, Tiarno di ...

, Lago di Lesina, Levico, Lucrino,

Massaciuccoli Massaciuccoli is village near Lake Massaciuccoli in the municipality of Massarosa, province of Lucca. The main historical interest is the exceptional monumental baths of the ancient Roman villa complex that belonged to the patrician Venulei ...

, Piediluco, Sabazio (Lake Bracciano), Sebino (Lake Iseo), Verbano (Lake Maggiore), Volsinio (Lake Bolsena). Other streets bear the name of Italian rivers: *

Adige The Adige (; german: Etsch ; vec, Àdexe ; rm, Adisch ; lld, Adesc; la, Athesis; grc, Ἄθεσις, Áthesis, or , ''Átagis'') is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the pro ...

, Agri,

Arno The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber. Source and route The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a ...

Aterno The Aterno-Pescara (ancient ''Aternus'' from the Greek ''Aternos'', ''Άτερνος'') is a river system in Abruzzo, eastern central Italy. The river is known as the Aterno near its source in the mountains, but takes the name Pescara, actually a ...

Bacchiglione __NOTOC__ The Bacchiglione ( la, Medoacus Minor, "Little Medoacus") is a river that flows in Veneto, northern Italy. It rises in the Alps and empties about later into the Brenta River near Chioggia. It flows through and past a number of cities, i ...

, Bormida, Brenta, Chiani,

Clitunno The Clitunno, in Antiquity the Clitumnus, is a river in Umbria, Italy. The name is of uncertain origin, but it was also borne by the river god. The Clitunno rises from a spring within a dozen metres of the ancient Via Flaminia near the town of ...

Crati The Crati is a river in Calabria, southern Italy. It is the largest river of Calabria and the third largest river of southern Italy after the Volturno and the Sele. In classical antiquity it was known as the Crathis or Crater (Greek: ). Geogr ...

Lambro The Lambro ( lmo, Lamber or ''Lambar'' ) is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy, a left tributary of the Po. The Lambro rises from the Monte San Primo, elevation , near the Ghisallo, in the province of Como, not far from Lake Como. After Mag ...

Mincio The Mincio (; Latin: Mincius, Ancient Greek: Minchios, ''Μίγχιος'', Lombard: Mens, Venetian: Menzo) is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The river is the main outlet of Lake Garda. It is a part of the ''Sarca-Mincio'' ...

Oglio The Oglio (; Latin ''Ollius'', or ''Olius''; Lombard ''Òi''; Cremonese ''Ùi'') is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy. It is long. In the hierarchy of the Po's tributaries, with its of length, it occupies the 2nd pla ...

Ombrone The Ombrone (Latin: ''Umbro'') is a long river in Tuscany, central Italy. The Ombrone's source is at San Gusmè, near Castelnuovo Berardenga, on the south-eastern side of the Monti del Chianti. After a twisting route, it receives the waters of ...

, Panaro,

Reno Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...

Serchio The Serchio (; la, Auser) is the third longest river in the Italian region of Tuscany at , coming after the Arno at and the Ombrone, . By mean rate of flow, it is the second largest, smaller than Arno but larger than Ombrone. The principal sou ...

Tagliamento The Tagliamento () is a braided river in north-east Italy, flowing from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea at a point between Trieste and Venice. The Tagliamento river is considered as the last morphologically intact river in the Alps. (Its c ...

Taro Taro () (''Colocasia esculenta)'' is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in Afri ...

Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ; lmo, Canton Tesin ; german: Kanton Tessin ; french: Canton du Tessin ; rm, Chantun dal Tessin . ...

, Tolero (river Sacco),

Topino The Topino is a river in Umbria, central Italy. It was known in ancient times as ''Supunna'' by Umbri and later in Latin as ''Tinia'' and is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the ''Canto'' XI of the ''Paradise''. It is the main tributary of the Chi ...

Tronto The Tronto ( la, Truentus) is a long Italian river that arises at Monti della Laga and ends in the Adriatic Sea at Porto d'Ascoli, San Benedetto del Tronto. It traverses the Lazio, Marche, and Abruzzo regions of Italy. The source of the Tront ...

. ; Italian colonies in Africa The part of the quarter commonly called "Quartiere Africano" is hinged on 4 avenues, bearing the names of the four Italian colonies in Africa, surrounded by streets named after cities and historical regions of the colonies themselves. ; Eritrea *

Agordat Agordat; also Akordat or Ak'ordat) is a city in Gash-Barka, Eritrea. It was the capital of the former Barka province, which was situated between the present-day Gash-Barka and Anseba regions. History Excavations in Agordat uncovered pottery r ...

, Asmara, Assab, Cheren, Dancalia, Massaua, Senafè. ; Etiopia *

Addis Abeba Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

Adigrat Adigrat (, ''ʿaddigrat'', also called ʿAddi Grat) is a city and separate woreda in Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is located in the Misraqawi Zone at longitude and latitude , with an elevation of above sea level and below a high ridge to the we ...

, Adua,

Amba Alagi Imba Alaje is a mountain, or an amba, in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi Zone of the Tigray Region, Imba Alaje dominates the roadway that runs past it from the city of Mek'ele south to Maychew. Because of its strategic location, Emba ...

, Dessiè, Dire Daua, Endertà, Galla e Sidama, Gimma,

Gondar Gondar, also spelled Gonder (Amharic: ጎንደር, ''Gonder'' or ''Gondär''; formerly , ''Gʷandar'' or ''Gʷender''), is a city and woreda in Ethiopia. Located in the North Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, Gondar is north of Lake Tana on t ...

, Makallè, Ogaden, Scirè, Tembien, Tigrè. ;

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...

* Barce, Bengasi, Cirenaica, Cirene, Derna,

Fezzan Fezzan ( , ; ber, ⴼⵣⵣⴰⵏ, Fezzan; ar, فزان, Fizzān; la, Phazania) is the southwestern region of modern Libya. It is largely desert, but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys (wadis) in the north, where oases enable ...

, Gadames, Ghirza,

Giarabub Jaghbub ( ar, الجغبوب) is a remote desert village in the Al Jaghbub Oasis in the eastern Libyan Desert. It is actually closer to the Egyptian town of Siwa than to any Libyan town of note. The oasis is located in Butnan District and was ...

, Homs,

Sabrata Sabratha ( ar, صبراتة, Ṣabrāta; also ''Sabratah'', ''Siburata''), in the Zawiya DistrictSirte,

Tocra Tocra, Taucheira or Tukrah, is a town on the coast of the Marj District in the Cyrenaica region of northeastern Libya, founded by Cyrene. It lay 200 stadia west of Ptolemais. Today it is a coastal town west of Marj. History Founded by the G ...

, Tripoli,

Tripolitania Tripolitania ( ar, طرابلس '; ber, Ṭrables, script=Latn; from Vulgar Latin: , from la, Regio Tripolitana, from grc-gre, Τριπολιτάνια), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province o ...

. ;

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

* Benadir, Chisimaio, Giuba, Migiurtinia, Mogadiscio. ;Toponyms of the

Sabina Sabina may refer to: Places and jurisdictions * Sabina (region), region and place in Italy, and hence: * the now Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina (-Poggio Mirteto), Italy * Magliano Sabina, city, Italy * Pozzaglia Sabina, city, Italy *Fara Sab ...

Piazza Vescovio takes its name from the homonymous ancient locality in the municipality of

Torri in Sabina Torri in Sabina is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about north of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. Located on a ridge of the Monti Sabini, it is part of the Sabina traditional region ...

, in the

Province of Rieti The Province of Rieti ( it, Provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 ''comuni'' i ...

. Although the correct accentuation is ''Vescovìo'', there is a widespread tendency to pronounce the toponym as ''Vescòvio'' due to an incorrect phonetic interpretation. In the vicinity of the square, many streets recall toponyms of municipalities or valleys of the Sabina: * Amatrice, Antrodoco,

Casperia Casperia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,164 and an area of .All demographics ...

, Collalto Sabino, Forano,

Magliano Sabina Magliano Sabina ( Maglianese: , Sabino: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about north of Rome and about west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,829 and an ar ...

Orvinio Orvinio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about south of Rieti Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a po ...

, Poggio Catino,

Poggio Moiano Poggio Moiano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about south of Rieti. Poggio Moiano borders the following municipalities: Colle di Tora, Frasso Sabino, Mon ...

, Poggio San Lorenzo, Roccantica,

Rocca Sinibalda Rocca Sinibalda is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Lazio, located about northeast of Rome and about southeast of Rieti. It is home to the Sforza Cesarini Castle, originally built in 1084 but turned into ...

Scandriglia Scandriglia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about south of Rieti. In the frazione of Ponticelli Sabino, is located the Franciscan convent and sanctuary of ...

, Valnerina. ;

Italian irredentism Italian irredentism ( it, irredentismo italiano) was a nationalist movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Italy with irredentist goals which promoted the unification of geographic areas in which indigenous peoples ...

Several streets are dedicated to geographic areas inhabited, in whole or in part, currently or in the past, by Italians, but which have never politically joined (or are no longer included in) the Italian state (and therefore considered by some to be "''irredent Italy''"); or, on the contrary, which have passed to the

after the victory over the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

(1918): *

Bolzano Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...

, Corsica, Dalmazia,

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label= Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Gori ...

, Gradisca, Istria,

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ce ...

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

. ;Italian opera composers and madrigalists In the vicinity of Viale Somalia there is a group of streets whose names are a tribute to Italian opera composers –

Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best ...

Niccolò Piccinni Niccolò Piccinni (; 16 January 1728 – 7 May 1800) was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly th ...

Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...

, Alessandro Vessella – or madrigalists –

Felice Anerio Felice Anerio (26 or 27 September 1614) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer ...

. ;References to the monuments in the quarter Piazza Annibaliano takes its name from the husband of the empress Constantina, whose mausoleum stands a few meters away. Via di Priscilla and Via di Novella are located near the Catacomb of Priscilla. The square surrounding the so-called ''Sedia del Diavolo'' bears the name of Elius Callistius, the freedman of Hadrian to whom the sepulchral monument was erected.Deliberation nr. 1864 of the Municipal Counsil of 1 October 1958.

Sport

* ''Somalia Sport Club'': since the 1970s, the quarter Trieste houses one of the most well-known sports facilities in the capital, the Somalia Sport Club in Largo Somalia nr. 60 (former American Health Club and later Roman Sport Center), a real institution in the field of indoor sports and recreational activities, in which important celebrities and politics, among others, have trained for years. In 2014 it was the scene of a scandal related to the bankruptcy of the company that managed it, which caused its impromptu closure. Following this event, the facility remained closed for over a year, until it was reopened by a new company in late 2015. Today the facility has returned to its former grace with the name of Somalia Sport Club and represents a point of reference for indoor sport throughout the northern quadrant of the town.