The Quarters of Rome ( Italian : quartieri di Roma ) are the areas in and around the Italian city of Rome which became urbanised after the foundation of the last city-centre rione , Prati .
17-510: Tuscolano is the 8th quartiere of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. VIII . The name derives from the ancient road Via Tuscolana . It belongs to the Municipio V and Municipio VII . The origins of the territory - which, as for the landscape, social and cultural aspect is now totally similar to Appio-Latino - can be dated back to the Middle Age , when the road that gave it its name,
34-583: A cross street of the Via Labicana . The first archaeological vestige that can be certainly connected to the Via Tuscolana is the Torre del Quadraro , a 12th-century guard tower. The territory of the quartiere is crossed by five imposing aqueducts built between 144 BC and 212 AD : Aqua Marcia , Aqua Tepula and Aqua Iulia , gathered together within the same structure, Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus , as well as
51-476: Is divided into first-level administrative subdivisions. There are 15 municipi ( sg. : municipio ) in the city; each municipio is governed by a president and a council who are elected directly by its residents every five years. The municipi collectively comprise the comune of Rome, which is itself one of the constituent parts of the wider Metropolitan City of Rome Capital . On 31 March 1966, for administrative purposes and to increase decentralization ,
68-416: Is outlined by the stretch of Via Casilina between Piazzale Labicano and Via di Centocelle. Eastward, the quarter borders with Quartiere Don Bosco (Q. XXIV), whose border is marked by Via di Centocelle and Via dell'Aeroporto. To the south-west, it borders with Quartiere Appio Claudio (Q. XXV): the boundary is delineated by the stretch of Via del Quadraro between Via Tuscolana and Via Appia Nuova. To
85-774: The Aqua Antoniniana , an offshoot of the Aqua Marcia . Up to the 1930s, the territory was also cut through by the Acqua Mariana, which is dated back to 1122 by the Liber Pontificalis : it was commissioned by Pope Callixtus II to allow the irrigation of the Ager Lateranense , the fields surrounding Saint John Lateran . The territory of the quarter includes the urban zones 9A Tuscolano Nord , 9B Tuscolano Sud , 9C Tor Fiscale , 6C Quadraro , as well as part of
102-565: The King of Italy , was renamed Pinciano in 1946. In 1961, 18 more quarters were established and numbered XVIII to XXXV. Some of the new quarters were created dismembering five eastern suburbs of the city, some others were established in the rural area around the city, the so called Agro Romano (the remaining part of the Agro Romano was divided into zones in the same year). Administrative subdivisions of Rome The city of Rome , Italy,
119-461: The Via Tuscolana , was first mentioned in a papal seal Honorius III issued in 1217. The road was built to link Rome with Tusculum but does not seem to have a classical origin: nothing to do with the road has the imperial mausoleum known as Monte del Grano (which was related to the nearby Roman villa called Ad Duas Lauros ), nor do the columbaria of Via Pescara, which were probably built along
136-475: The municipi , which were established in 1977 for statistical and city planning purposes on the basis of urban homogeneity criteria. Boundaries were drafted taking account of the discontinuities in Rome's urban pattern The urban zones are identified by an alphanumeric code that consists of a letter and of the number of the municipio where the zone was located: indeed, the municipi were reduced from 20 to 15 in 2013, but
153-451: The 20th century other rioni where created (the last one was Prati – the only one outside the Walls of Pope Urban VIII – in 1921). Afterward, for the new administrative subdivisions of the city the name "quartiere" was used. Today all the rioni are part of the first Municipio, which therefore coincides completely with the historical city ( Centro Storico ). There are currently 6 suburbi with
170-663: The alphanumeric codes were not revised. Rome is also divided into 116 non-administrative units, called comprensori toponomastici (toponymic districts), which are organized into four groups: The rioni originate from the Regiones of ancient Rome , which evolved in the Middle Ages into the medieval rioni . In the Renaissance , under Pope Sixtus V , they reached again the number of fourteen, and their boundaries were finally defined under Pope Benedict XIV in 1743. A new subdivision of
187-462: The city under Napoleon was ephemeral, and there were no sensible changes in the organisation of the city until 1870 when Rome became the capital of Italy. The needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the Aurelian Walls . In 1874 a fifteenth rione, Esquilino , was created on the newly urbanised zone of Monti . At the beginning of
SECTION 10
#1732881006166204-413: The direct election of a President to head each municipio was established. On 11 March 2013, Rome City Council decided to merge some of the municipi , reducing their number to 15 and giving them a new numeration. For the current legislature (2021–2026), presidents of Rome's municipi are: The comune of Rome is also composed of 155 urban zones ( zone urbanistiche ), conceived as a subdivision of
221-592: The northern part, Roman personalities and consuls in the south-eastern part and towns of Lazio in the central part. The roads near the former Centocelle airport are named after prominent aviators. Odonyms of the quarter can be categorized as follows: Quarters of Rome They form the second level of administrative sub-divisions of Roma Capitale . Together they cover 171.38 km and hold 1483913 inhabitants. The first 15 quarters were officially founded and numbered in 1926, after first being drafted in 1911. As of 1930 there were two more unofficial quarters:
238-563: The quarter XVI, which was called Città Giardino Aniene in 1924; and the quarter XVII, that was named Savoia in 1926. These two were later officially renamed, the XVII becoming Trieste in 1946 and the XVI becoming Monte Sacro in 1951. Other quarters have been renamed: the quarter XV, previously called Milvio , became Della Vittoria in 1935, while the III, once known as Vittorio Emanuele III in honor of
255-448: The south, the quarter borders with Quartiere Appio-Pignatelli (Q. XXVI), from which it is separated by the stretch of Via Appia Nuova between Via del Quadraro and Via dell'Almone. To the west, Quartiere Tuscolano borders with Quartiere Appio-Latino (Q. IX): the boundary is marked by the stretch of Via Appia Nuova between Via dell'Almone and Piazzale Appio. Streets and squares of Tuscolano are mostly named after Italian towns in
272-499: The territory of the comune of Rome was divided into 12 administrative areas, called circoscrizioni (singular: circoscrizione ). On 11 February 1972 those areas were increased to 20. On 6 March 1992, after the referendum that ratified the separation of the then Circoscrizione XIV from Rome and the birth of the new independent comune of Fiumicino , the number of administrative areas of Rome decreased to 19. On 19 January 2001, circoscrizioni which were renamed municipi and
289-511: The urban zones 10A Don Bosco and 10B Appio Claudio . The most relevant roads of the quartiere are Via Tuscolana, Via Appia Nuova and Via Casilina. The nerve center of the traffic is Piazza Re di Roma (which is shared with Quartiere Appio-Latino ). Northward, Tuscolano borders with Rione Esquilino (R. XV), from which it is separated by the portion of the Aurelian Walls between Piazzale Appio and Piazzale Labicano, and with Quartiere Prenestino-Labicano (Q. VII), whose boundary
#165834