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08-La Ruota Della Storia Walks in Rome The wheel of history The Oppian and Esquiline Hills Walks in Rome • The Oppian and Esquiline Hills 8 1. Walking, walking... 9 2. The Domus Aurea 12 3. Walking, walking... 14 4. San Pietro in Vincoli 18 5. Walking, walking... 21 6. San Martino ai Monti 26 7. Walking, walking... 29 8. The Trofei di Mario and the Porta Magica 33 9. Walking, walking... 36 Rome for you Information series on the City of Rome Produced by:: Cosmofilm spa - Elio de Rosa editor Texts: Alberto Tagliaferri, Valerio Varriale (Cultural Association Mirabilia Urbis) Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, the “Porta Magica” (Magic door) flanked by Editorial coordination: Emanuela Bosi statues of the Egyptian God Bes Graphics and page setting: Marco C. Mastrolorenzi Translation by: Teri Leigh VanLandingham and Stephen Geoffrey Wheeler The wheel of history Photography: D. Bianca: pages 32 bottom, 34 bottom; C. De Santis: pages 3, 9 left, 10, 11 bottom, 14, 15 top, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32 top, 33, 34 top, 35 bottom, 36, 37; A. Idini: page 35 top; A. Marchionne Gunter: page 20; P. Soriani: pages 2, 12, 13, 15 bottom, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28; SSPMR: pages 9 The Oppian and Esquiline Hills right, 19; E. Vagni: page 38; Archivio Cosmofilm: page 11 top. Cover image, the so-called Trofei di Mario (Trophies of Marius) On this page, San Martino ai Monti, detail of the room with staircase leading underground T h e w h e e l o f h i Presentation s t o r y alks in Rome are a series of itineraries for those wishing to further their knowledge of the city. Publications cove - Wring Rome’s great Renaissance period have already been made available - Caravaggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Baroque art as expressed in the architecture of Bernini and Borromini. Now further special walks have been drawn up to accompany and aid the visitor in their “step by step” discovery of our city.As such, the city is represented and “read” as a unique picture, a mosaic which comes together and dissolves according to the needs of the visitor. You can choose from monumental Rome (Via dei Fori Imperiali and the Colosseum), The Hill A nineteenth-century view of the Esquiline Hill by B. Pinelli of Poetry (the Aventine and its surroundings), Amid Woods and Aque - ducts (the Caelian Hill), The dawning of Christian Rome (San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Croce in Gerusalemme), The Suburra (the neigh - bourhood of Monti and Santa Maria Maggiore), and A Virtual Film Set (Via Veneto and Surroundings).It has been daunting enterprise but a fulfilling one that has succeeded in simply conveying an image of the city’s traditions and cultural identity, whilst being at the same time scientifically accurate. The narration uses both a graphic approach and text, which is an effective system for conveying an understanding of Rome’s vast and unbelievable history. Our guides allows tourists to immediately identify the main significance of their chosen walk and at the same time orientate themselves in the area they wish to visit.These carefully selected walking guides serve well as a symbolic “artist’s sket - chbook,” providing the visitor with a large window display, full of mir - rors, inside of which there is a cultural horizon that could not be more Roman, evocative or abundant in enduring values. Rome awaits you! The Tourist Office of the Rome Municipal Council An eighteenth-century engraving of the so-called Trofei di Mario (Trophies of Marius) by 5 G.B. Piranesi T p h a e m m e a h p T Key 1. Walking, walking... 2. The Domus Aurea 3. Walking, walking... 4. San Pietro in Vincoli 5. Walking, walking... 6. San Martino ai Monti 7. Walking, walking... 8. The Trofei di Mario and the Porta Magica 9. Walking, walking... 5 9 6 8 7 4 1 2 3 6 7 T h 8 e k w l h a e e W l 1. o urjourneybegins re is a small building f …Begin the atLargo Corra - Walking, with a courtyard that h i s walking tour ... do Ricci. Take is adorned with a six- t O walking... o a right at the begin - teenth-century foun- r ning of via Cavour onto tainwhose water flows y via del Colosseo , one of the roads from a grotesque mask. Most that survived the many demolitions of likely, the fountain, which was transfer - the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. red here, is what remained of the por - The Oppian and Esquiline Hills This road leads us into the fabric of tion of the sixteenth-century Villa Silve - ancient Rome. After a few metres, take a stri that was ultimately demolished for ntheancientcity, Esquiliae was the second half of the sixteenth century, left onto via del Buon Consiglio , which via dei Fori Imperiali . The remainder of name given to the eastern hilly area Sixtus V launched a rebirth of the area gets its name from the church of the the Villa became the Pio Istituto Rivaldi. Ithat created the fifth Augustea with the construction of his own villa in Madonna del Buon Consiglio. The chur - At the end of via del Cardello , we find our - District. The name, which probably ori - the area of present-day Termini train ch was initially given the name San Pan - selves again on via del Colosseo . Precisely ginates from the verb ex-colere (resident station as well as with the creation of a taleo but around the middle of the eigh - at this intersection, there is the church of the exterior), illustrated that the area modern network of roads that had the teenth century, it was assigned to the of Santa Maria ad Nives, which in was considerably different in respect to Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore at its archconfraternity of the Madonna di ancient times was dedicated to San the original centre on the Palatine. centre. Successive centuries would see Genazzano , also known as the Buon Con - Andrea de Portugallo . The single nave Beginning in the ninth century BC, a the area flourish with grand noble vil - siglio, who restored it. Severely dama - church, adorned with paintings from good part of the Esquiline was used as a las, emulating those of classical anti - ged by a fire during the last century, it the seventeenth and eighteenth centu - burial area and maintained this purpo - quity which made the hilly area into an has since been deconsecrated, but at ries, at one time belonged to the Univer - se throughout the entire republican unforgettable city-garden until 1870. one time exorcisms were held here for sità dei Rigattieri . It changed its name period. However, the western summits However, when Rome became the capi - the possessed. According to traditions, when it was passed to the confraternity known as the Oppian, Fagutalis and tal, everything was sold, parcelled out there is an underground well that has of Santa Maria della Neve. The late miraculous water containing the body Baroque façade, perhaps designed by Cispius were a part of the primitive Septi - and destroyed. According to the 1873 of St. Pantaleon. At the end of via del Carlo Fontana or Giuseppe Sardi, has a montium (religious festival of the seven regulatory plan, the area was designa - Buon Consiglio , take a right onto via del slightly convex progression and inclu - hills) and consequently were included ted for public administration and a new Cardello , famous in the past for being the des a sectioned tympanum and angular within the Servian Wall. During the Rome was superimposed over the location of one of the most noted six - pilasters. To the left of the church, on via princeps of Augustus, the cemetery area ancient one. During the twentieth cen - teenth-century osteria (taverns), the del Colosseo , there is a protective wall and was reclaimed, fully included within the tury, the Esquiline experienced a “Gatto Nero” (Black Cat). At no.15, the - the massive Pio Istituto Rivaldi, previou - city and luxurious villas such as the strong increase in its residential popula - Mecenate began to embellish the enti - tion with a progressive urban deteriora - re area. Throughout the imperial tion. Beginning in the eighties, a neigh - period, many of these aristocratic resi - bourhood advancement programme dences became encompassed into was launched that began with the reno - imperial property despite the fact the vation of Piazza Vittorio. Thus, the area maintained a peripheral feel in wheel of history continued to turn and respect to the more ancient nucleus of provide new challenges and changes. the city. Its distance from the centre Currently, the area between the encouraged the concentration of the Oppian and Esquiline Hills has the lar - early Christian basilicas here and some gest number of inhabitants originating of the most ancient tituli quickly fol - from other areas of the globe and exhi - lowed, as such a new Christian city arose bits all of the advantages and difficulties next to the pagan one. Events during that this dimension involves. The the Middle Ages caused the few survi - ancient Esquiline finds itself at the cut - ving inhabitants to concentrate their ting edge of new strategies for advanta - activities near the banks of the Tiber, geous co-habitation among cultures. 8 thus the hills of the Esquiline remained Yet again, it is the birthplace of a new Madonna del Buon Consiglio, façade Madonna del Buon Consiglio, interior 9 practically uninhabited. During the city. T h 8 e k w l h a e e W l o features the remnants of lacunar cei - testify. The complex was successively f lings adorned with the various coats of The Annibaldi Tower demolished for building material until h i s arms of noble families and grotesque the 1930s when it became a part of a t o decorations, whereas the garden con - definitive public park area.
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