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Portuense is the 11th of
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), identified by the initials Q.XI. The toponym is also used to indicate the urbanistic area 15b, in the
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. The population of the urbanistic area amounts to 30.362 inhabitants. There is also a (suburb) with the same name, identified by the initials S.VII. __TOC__


History

Portuense is one of the first 15 ''Quartieri'' born in 1911 and officially established in 1921. It took its name from the ancient Via Portuense.


Geography

The ''quartiere'' is in the southern area of the town, close to the
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and to the river
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. The territory of Portuense includes the urban zones 15B ''Ostiense'' and 15C ''Pian Due Torri'', a great portion of the urban zone 16A ''Marconi'' as well as a little part of the urban zone 16D ''Gianicolense''.


Boundaries

To the north, Portuense borders with ''
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(R. XIII), whose border is shortly marked by Piazza di Porta Portese. It also borders with ''Rione''
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(R.XX), from which is separated by the stretch of the Tiber between Ponte Testaccio and Ponte dell'Industria. Eastward, the ''quartiere'' borders with
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(Q.X) and with Europa (Q.XXXII), from which is separated by the stretch of the Tiber between Ponte dell'Industria and the Magliana Viaduct. To the south-west, it borders with ''Suburbio'' Portuense (S. VII), whose border is marked by the Magliana Viaduct, by a short stretch of the Autostrada Roma-Fiumicino, by Via
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, Largo Giuseppe Petrelli, Via dell'Imbrecciato, Via Bolgheri, Via
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, and by another stretch of Via dell'Imbrecciato up to Via Portuense. Westward, Portuense borders with ''Quartiere'' Gianicolense (Q.XII), whose boundary is defined by Via Portuense, Via Ettore Rolli and by another stretch of Via Portuense.


Local geography

Main roads and squares of the ''quartiere'' are: * Via della Magliana, connecting Portuense to the neighborhood of Magliana, which is comprised in ''Suburbio'' Portuense; * Viale
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, a huge thoroughfare which connects the district to ''Quartiere''
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and to Via Cristoforo Colombo; * Piazza della
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, at the end of Viale Guglielmo Marconi; * Piazza Antonio Meucci, a rectangular square with a garden and a playground in the middle; * Piazza
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Places of interest


Churches

* Santa Passera * Santi Aquila e Priscilla *
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Parks

* Villa Bonelli


Notes


Bibliography

* *{{cite book, first1=Mauro, last1=Quercioli, title=I quartieri di Roma, date=1997, publisher=Newton & Compton, location=Rome, isbn=88-8183-639-4 *Carlo Pietrangeli,
Insegne e stemmi dei rioni di Roma
' in «Capitolium», n. 6, 1953 (XXVIII) Neighbourhoods in Italy