Urban division of Rome
The Italian capital Rome is divided into 15 municipalities and 155 zones. In ancient times it was divided into four, later into 14 regions .
Municipalities
The Munizipien (Italian municipi = "town halls") are city districts that were introduced in 1972 to better manage the city. In 1977 the municipalities were divided into 155 zones (zone urbanistiche) , which were delimited according to urban planning considerations and mostly not coincident with the historic city districts. Originally there were 20 municipalities. The original Municipio XIV was amalgamated in 1992 and exists today as an independent city of Fiumicino . Therefore, the number XIV was missing from the series of municipalities until 2013. In 2013 the municipalities were reallocated as shown below.
The municipalities each have a directly elected president and a parliament. A large part of Rome's administrative tasks are now carried out through the municipalities.
The 15 municipalities are composed as follows:
- Municipio I - Centro Storico (Rome) - Prati
- Municipio II - Parioli / Nomentano - San Lorenzo
- Municipio III - Monte Sacro
- Municipio IV - Tiburtina
- Municipio V - Prenestino / Centocelle
- Municipio VI - Roma delle Torri
- Municipio VII - San Giovanni / Cinecittà
- Municipio VIII - Appia Antica
- Municipio IX - EUR
- Municipio X - Ostia
- Municipio XI - Arvalia Portuense
- Municipio XII - Monte Verde
- Municipio XIII - Aurelia
- Municipio XIV - Monte Mario
- Municipio XV - Cassia Flaminia
Historic districts
A first city structure is said to be in the 6th century BC. BC under King Servius Tullius . Rome was then divided into four regions , which corresponded to the city-Roman tribes .
- Suburana ( Caelius , Subura )
- Esquilina ( Esquiline )
- Collina ( Quirinal and Viminal )
- Palatina ( Palatine and Velia )
The Capitol Hill and the Aventine were not included at the time.
Under Augustus, between 12 and 7 BC. The city, which in the meantime had spread far beyond the four original regions, was divided into 14 regiones . They were originally just numbered; Names are only documented from the 2nd century. The classification remained valid until the end of the imperial era.
- Region I: Porta Capena
- Regio II: Caelimontium ( Caelius )
- Regio III: Isis et Serapis ( Oppius , valley between Caelius and Esquiline , Colosseum )
- Regio IV: Templum Pacis (among others Subura , Carinae )
- Regio V: Esquiliae (Esquiline)
- Regio VI: Alta Semita ( Quirinal and Viminal )
- Regio VII: Via Lata (eastern part of the Marsfeld , western part of the Pincio )
- Regio VIII: Roman Forum
- Regio IX: Circus Flaminius (western part of the Marsfeld)
- Regio X: Palatium (Palatine)
- Regio XI: Circus Maximus
- Regio XII: Piscina Publica (eastern part of the Aventine )
- Regio XIII: Aventinus
- Regio XIV: Transtiberim
This classification remained in the Middle Ages, even if the modern names slowly emerged and the boundaries were no longer precisely defined.
Rioni
The term Rione is derived from the Latin regiones . From the 14th century, Rome was initially divided into 12 Rioni. Due to the population growth, the number of existing Rioni increased to 21 by 1921. In the same year, the 22nd Rione Prati, the first district outside the Aurelian city wall, was established.
These Rioni are no longer of any administrative importance today. In the everyday life of the Romans, however, the historically grown districts still play a greater role than the new administrative units.
I. - Monti - it encloses the Esquiline and Viminal hills and extends from Piazza Venezia to the Lateran II - Trevi - it includes the Quirinal and the area below around the Trevi Fountain III - Colonna - on both sides of Via del Corso IV - Campo Marzio - the northern part of the old town from the Spanish Steps to Piazza del Popolo V - Ponte - the Tiber knee opposite the Castel Sant'Angelo VI - Parione - the area around Piazza Navona and Campo de 'Fiori VII - Regola - the banks of the Tiber between Ponte Garibaldi and Ponte Mazzini VIII - Sant'Eustachio - the neighborhood around Sant'Andrea della Valle IX - Pigna - between Piazza Venezia and Pantheon X - Campitelli - encloses the Capitol and Palatine hills XI - Sant'Angelo - roughly the former ghetto XII - Ripa - the Aventine hill and the Tiber bank to the Tiber island XIII - Trastevere - on the west bank of the Tiber XIV - Borgo - between the Vatican and Castel Sant'Angelo (part of the Municipio XV) XV - Esquilino - the eastern part of the Esquiline with the Roma Termini train station XVI - Ludovisi - on both sides of Via Veneto XVII - Sallustiano - north of Via XX. Settembre XVIII - Castro Pretorio - encloses the Baths of Diocletian XIX - Celio - the hill of Caelius XX - Testaccio - around the Monte Testaccio XXI - San Saba - the Little Aventine with the Caracalla Baths XXII - Prati - the Belle Époque district northeast of the Vatican (part of the Municipio XV)
Quartieri
From 1926 the newly built districts outside the city wall were called Quartieri ( Sg. Quartiere) . They were also numbered with Roman numerals, preceded by a Q to distinguish them . The Ostia district on the coast was divided into the three Quartieri Q.XXXIII to Q.XXXV.
QI | Flaminio | Q.II | Parioli | Q.III | Pinciano | Q.IV | Salario | QV | Nomentano |
Q.VI | Tiburtino | Q.VII | Prenestino-Labicano | Q.VIII | Tuscolano | Q.IX | Appio-Latino | QX | Ostiense |
Q.XI | Portuense | Q.XII | Gianicolense | Q.XIII | Aurelio | Q.XIV | Trionfale | Q.XV | Della Vittoria |
Q.XVI | Monte Sacro | Q.XVII | Trieste | Q.XVIII | Gate di Quinto | Q.XIX | Prenestino Centocelle | Q.XX | Ardeatino |
Q.XXI | Pietralata | Q.XXII | Collatino | Q.XXIII | Alessandrino | Q.XXIV | Don Bosco | Q.XXV | Appio Claudio |
Q.XXVI | Appio Pignatelli | Q.XXVII | Primavalle | Q.XXVIII | Monte Sacro Alto | Q.XXIX | Ponte Mammolo | Q.XXX | San Basilio |
Q.XXXI | Giuliano-Dalmata | Q.XXXII | EUR | Q.XXXIII | Lido di Ostia Ponente | Q.XXXIV | Lido di Ostia Levante | Q.XXXV | Lido di Castel Fusano |
Suburbi
From 1930 onwards, eleven suburbi (suburbs) were set up on the outskirts . Since 1961 the Suburbi S.II to S.VI. were converted into Quartieri, only six remained.
SI | Gate di Quinto | S.VII | Portuense | S.VIII | Gianicolense |
S.IX | Aurelio | SX | Trionfale | S.XI | Della Vittoria |
Ager Romanus
On July 6, 1817, by decree of Pope Pius VII, the city limits of Rome, which were previously undetermined, were established and the area was designated as Ager Romanus .
After the spin-off of the cities of Pomezia and Ardea , the area that was outside the closed urban area was divided into 59 zones, seven of which fell to the newly founded city of Fiumicino in 1992 . The zone Z.XLIII Maccarese Nord was divided between Rome and Fiumicino.
Many of the zones are named after old villages or manors in the Ager Romanus.
The remaining 53 zones are:
literature
- Arvast Nordh: Libellus de Regionibus Urbis Romae. Gleerup, Lund 1949
- Ludwig Preller : The regions of the city of Rome. Hochhausen, Jena 1846 ( online - Internet Archive ).
- Gerhard Radke : Regiones. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 1367.
Internet source
Roma Capitale. Territorio. comune.roma.it, accessed June 14, 2013 (Italian).