Trieste is the 17th quarter 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

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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 Empire, Roman period. In Classical Antiquity, antiquity, it lay outside the city limits, 3 km north of t ...

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 The Via Nomentana was an ancient Roman road in Italy, leading North-East from Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio ...

. * to the south-east, with the quarter Q. V

Nomentano Nomentano is the 5th ''Quarters of Rome, quartiere'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. V. The name derives from the ancient road Via Nomentana. It belongs to the Municipio II. History Nomentano is among the first 15 quarters of th ...

, 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 Parioli () is the 2nd of Rome, identified by the initials Q. II. The toponym is also used to indicate the urbanistic area 2B of the . The name comes from Monti Parioli, a series of tufa hills, and was given to the area before its incorporatio ...

, 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 (, , , ; ) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. The Sabines divided int ...

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 rape of the Sabine women. Just few remains survive from the archaic and republican ages, while the area became very popular following the construction of several

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, such as the ancient

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, 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

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. In the years following the

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(313 AD), a monumental basilica dedicated to

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, 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 (

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). 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,

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lived at the time of the

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Urbanization and birth of the quarter

Following the

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

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); 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

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(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

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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

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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

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, 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

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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

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, 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

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) 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

In an area adjacent to Piazza Buenos Aires there is the Quartiere Coppedè, a small district built in

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style, designed by the architect

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. 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

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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

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, 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,

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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 * Santa Maria Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires, 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

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, in Via Salaria *

Catacombs of Saint Agnes The Catacomb of Saint Agnes () is one of the catacombs of Rome, placed at the second mile of via Nomentana, inside the monumental complex of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura, in the Quartiere Trieste. Toponym The name of the catacomb derives from the ...

, 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 * Large Catacomb

Green areas

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

Bridges

* Ponte di via delle Valli *

Cinema

Over the years the quarter was often the setting for many Italian movies. De Sica used the shacks on the river

as the set of the movie '' The roof'' in 1955.

set his 1958 movie ''

'' 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

Totò Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il principe della risat ...

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 '' La valigia dei sogni'' 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 ''

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'', with

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and

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

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'' are set in the area.

Carla Gravina Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in '' La Terrazza'' (1980). Her other notable roles were in '' Love and Chatter'' (1957), '' Ester ...

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 ''

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (also known as ''Fiasco in Milan'' or ''Hold-up à la milanaise'') is a 1959 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy. The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and Claudia Cardinale. It is the s ...

'' (1960),

Vittorio Gassman Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important producti ...

enters a door in Via Dora in the Quartiere Coppedè, while during the movie he walks along Viale Etiopia still under construction. A brief shot in '' Be Sick... It's Free'', with Alberto Sordi, shows Viale Libia near the UPIM department store. The same UPIM store in 1960 is the workplace of the three protagonists of ''Caccia al marito'' with

Sandra Mondaini Alessandrina "Sandra" Mondaini (; 1 September 1931 – 21 September 2010) was an Italian actress, singer, and television and radio presenter. She appeared in 30 films between 1953 and 2008. Born in Milan, Italy, she was originated of Lambra ...

, while in ''

We All Loved Each Other So Much ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' () is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ettore Scola, who co-wrote the screenplay with screenwriting duo Age & Scarpelli. It stars Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta ...

'' by

Ettore Scola Ettore Scola (; 10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film ''A Special Day'' and over ...

, Piazza Caprera is used to mark a change of time. Scola himself 20 years later will set his '' Mario, Maria and Mario'', with

Giulio Scarpati Giulio Scarpati (born 20 February 1956) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Rome, pretty active on stage, after several small film roles Scarpati had his breakout role in 1991 as Marco, the main character in the Giuseppe Piccioni's dr ...

, in the historic headquarters of the

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in Via Sebino. Due to its peculiar architecture, the Quartiere Coppedè was chosen by the director

Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. His influential work in the horror film, horror and giallo genres during the 1970s and 1980s has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the ...

, residing in the quarter Trieste, as the background for some scenes of his movies ''

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' () is a 1970 ''giallo'' film written and directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. It stars Tony Musante as an American writer in Rome who witnesses a serial killer targeting young women and tries ...

'' (1970) and ''

Inferno Inferno may refer to: * Hell, an afterlife place of suffering * Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire Film * ''L'Inferno'', a 1911 Italian film * ''Inferno'' (1953 film), a film noir by Roy Ward Baker * ''Inferno'' (1980 film), an Italian ...

'' (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 ''Teresa Venerdì'' is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is a remake of the 1938 Hungarian film ''Rézi Friday'' he name of the character, Venerdi, meaning Friday in Italian Cast * Vittorio De Sica ...

'', 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 Federico Moccia (born 20 July 1963) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and film director. His father Giuseppe Moccia was also a screenwriter and director. Following his successful book and film ' many people put love padlocks on Ponte Milvio in ...

Anthropic geography

Urban planning

The territory of the quarter coincides with the homonymous

urban zone An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...

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 (, , also called Diana's Mirror, ) is a small circular volcanic lake in the Alban Hills south of Rome in the Lazio region of Italy. It takes its name from Nemi, the largest town in the area, which overlooks it from a height. It was ...

. 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 d ...

, Lago di Lesina,

Levico Levico Terme (''Levego'' in local dialect; ''Löweneck'' in German; ) is a ''Communes of Trentino, comune'' (municipality) and a town in Trentino in the northern Italy, Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. As of 30 June 2012, it had a p ...

, Lucrino,

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

Piediluco Lago di Piediluco is a lake that straddles the border between the Province of Terni, Umbria, Italy and the Province of Rieti, Lazio. At an elevation of , its surface area is . The lake is formed by the inflow of water from three sources: the Rio ...

, Sabazio (Lake Bracciano),

Sebino Lake Iseo or Iseo lake ( ; ; ), also known as Sebino (; ), is the fourth largest lake in Lombardy, Italy, fed by the Oglio River. It is in the north of the country in the Val Camonica area, near the cities of Brescia and Bergamo. The lake is a ...

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

Adige The Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the province of South Tyrol, near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows through most of northeastern Italy ...

Agri Agri may refer to: Places * Ağrı Province, eastern Turkey ** Ağrı, the capital city of the province * Ağrı, the Turkish name for Mount Ararat in Turkey * Ağrı Subregion, Turkey, a statistical subregion * Ağrı (electoral district), an e ...

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 sou ...

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 (, "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, including Vicenza and ...

, 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: ). Geograph ...

Lambro The Lambro ( 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 Magreglio it fl ...

Mincio The Mincio (; ; ; ; ) 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'' river system which also includes the river Sarca and the Lake Garda. The river starts ...

Oglio The Oglio (; or ; , ) 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 place per length (after the river Adda), while it is the 4th pe ...

Ombrone The Ombrone (Latin: ''Umbro'') is a river situated in the provinces of Grosseto and Siena, 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 twistin ...

, Panaro,

Reno Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, ...

Serchio The Serchio (; ) 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 source forms ...

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. (I ...

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, stems and Petiole (botany), petioles. Taro corms are a ...

Ticino Ticino ( ), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eight districts ...

, 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 ''Paradiso (Dante), Paradise''. It is the main t ...

Tronto The Tronto () 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 Tronto is in the Mon ...

. ; 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 Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

Agordat Agordat (also spelled 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 Agordat was historically a key ce ...

Asmara Asmara ( ), or Asmera (), is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region (Eritrea), Central Region. It sits at an elevation of , making it the List of capital cities by altitude, sixth highest capital in the wo ...

Assab Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar language, Afar, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, and Arabic. After the Ita ...

, Cheren, Dancalia,

Massaua Massawa or Mitsiwa ( ) is a port city in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea, located on the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago. It has been a historically important port for many centuries. Massaw ...

, Senafè. ; Etiopia *

Addis Abeba Addis may refer to: Places *Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia **Addis Ababa University **Addis Ketema, a city district *Addis, Louisiana, a town in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, US People *Addis (name) *Raptile (born 1976), stage name Ad ...

Adigrat Adigrat ( , ''ʿaddigrat'', also called ʿAddi Grat) is a city and separate Districts of Ethiopia, 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 ...

, Adua, Amba Alagi, 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 ...

, Makallè,

Ogaden Ogaden (pronounced and often spelled ''Ogadēn''; , ) is one of the historical names used for the modern Somali Region. It is also natively referred to as Soomaali Galbeed (). The region forms the eastern portion of Ethiopia and borders Somalia ...

, Scirè, Tembien, Tigrè. ;

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

* Barce,

Bengasi Benghazi () () is the List of cities in Libya, second-most-populous city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of 859,000 in 2023. Located on the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, Ben ...

, Cirenaica, Cirene, Derna,

Fezzan Fezzan ( , ; ; ; ) 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 ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise in ...

, Gadames,

Ghirza Gerisa, also called Ghirza, was an ancient city of Roman Libya near the Limes Tripolitanus. It was a small village of 300 inhabitants on the pre-desert zone of Tripolitania. History Even if there was a small local settlement, it was only when R ...

Giarabub Jaghbub () () 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 the administrativ ...

Homs Homs ( ; ), known in pre-Islamic times as Emesa ( ; ), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level, above sea level and is located north of Damascus. Located on the Orontes River, Homs is ...

Sabrata Sabratha (; also ''Sabratah'', ''Siburata''), in the Zawiya DistrictSirte Sirte (; , ), also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrte, is a city in Libya. It is located south of the Gulf of Sirte, almost right in the middle between Tripoli and Benghazi. It is famously known for its battles, ethnic groups and loyal ...

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 Gr ...

Tripoli Tripoli or Tripolis (from , meaning "three cities") may refer to: Places Greece *Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in the Pelasgiotis district, Thessaly, near Larissa ...

Tripolitania Tripolitania (), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province of Libya. The region had been settled since antiquity, first coming to prominence as part of the Carthaginian empire. Following the defeat ...

. ;

Somalia Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...

* Benadir, Chisimaio, Giuba,

Migiurtinia The Majeerteen Sultanate (, ), or Majerteen Kingdom also known as Majeerteenia and/or Migiurtinia, was a Somali kingdom centered in the Horn of Africa. Ruled by Boqor Osman Mahamuud during its golden age, the sultanate controlled the areas cor ...

Mogadiscio Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has an estimated urban population of 2,610,4 ...

. ;Toponyms of the Sabina Piazza Vescovio takes its name from the homonymous ancient locality in the municipality of

Torri in Sabina Torri in Sabina is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about north of Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also t ...

, in the

Province of Rieti The province of Rieti () is a Provinces of Italy, 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'' (: '' ...

. 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 Amatrice (; Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Rieti, in the Italian region of Lazio, and the center of the food-agricultural area of Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park. The town was devastated by a p ...

Antrodoco Antrodoco ( Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Rieti, in the Lazio region of central Italy. The name derives from the Latin Interocrea (between the mountains). Geography Antrodoco is located along the Velino river, in the c ...

Casperia Casperia is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of 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 and oth ...

Collalto Sabino Collalto Sabino () is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southeast of Rieti. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). C ...

Forano Forano is a (municipality) in the province of Rieti, in the Italian region of Latium, located about north of Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the admi ...

Magliano Sabina Magliano Sabina () is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, at Tiber Valley, located about north of Rome and about west of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,829 and an area of .All de ...

Orvinio Orvinio is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about south of Rieti. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia () is a non-profit private association of small Itali ...

Poggio Catino Poggio Catino is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2011, it had a population of 1,335 and an area of . History The village ...

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

, 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 (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of 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 Santa ...

, Valnerina. ;

Italian irredentism Italian irredentism ( ) was a political movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Kingdom of Italy, Italy with irredentism, irredentist goals which promoted the Unification of Italy, unification of geographic areas in which indig ...

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 Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consist ...

in the

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

(1918): *

Bolzano Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The ...

, Corsica, Dalmazia,

Gorizia Gorizia (; ; , ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, Region ...

, Gradisca,

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; ; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian: ; ; ) is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. Located at th ...

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...

Trieste Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of Trieste, ...

. ;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 (; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was ''Mefistofele''. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretto, libretti ar ...

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 the ...

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

. The square surrounding the so-called ''Sedia del Diavolo'' bears the name of Elius Callistius, the

freedman A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group), or self- ...

Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

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.