00:00 Via Val Maggia
07:00 Via dei Prati Fiscali
23:30 Via di Valle Melaina
49:00 Murales di Gigi Proietti
1:00:00 Parco della Cecchina
1:10:39 Parco Sannazzaro
This walking tour of Rome, Italy was filmed on Thursday January 4th, 2024. You will see the Montesacro District, a not so much known district of Rome with beautiful parks and street art. We will pass through the Conca d'Oro and the Tufello urban areas entering Città Giardino (Garden City), a residential area with beautiful villas.
The territory of the neighborhood has been inhabited since ancient times: this is confirmed by the findings of two skulls of the so-called Saccopastore Man together with lithic tools of Mousterian manufacture dating back to around 120,000 years ago.
With the advent of Rome, legend has it that the augurs went to the Sacred Mountain to make their prophecies by observing the flight of the birds, from which the sacredness of the mountain derives. The plebs retreated to Monte Sacro (or the Aventine) in 494 BC. and in 448 BC. in a real revolt against the patriciate which led to the institution of the plebeian tribunes, the plebeian aediles and a representative assembly, the concilium plebis, which elected the plebeian tribunes and aediles; to commemorate the event a large altar was built in Iuppiter Territor which increased the aura of sacredness of the place. In those years the territory of the neighborhood, which was far from the city walls, was at the center of vast estates with patrician and freedmen's villas.
The fall of the Empire saw the replacement of Roman villas with medieval farmhouses and a general depopulation of the territory which however remained garrisoned for defense reasons due to the presence of the Nomentano bridge, an outpost and crossing point towards the north of the Lazio territory. Tradition has it that Pope Leo III and Charlemagne met right on the Nomentano bridge in the year 800.
The distance from the city walls also transformed the territory of the neighborhood and the Monte Sacro into a place of "excursions" out of town until the end of the 1800s. And it was precisely during one of these excursions in 1805 that Simón Bolívar, after having learned from his friend -mentor Simon Rodriguez that on that hill the Roman plebeians, led by Menenio Agrippa, had rebelled for the first time against the oppression of the aristocratic class, decided to swear for the liberation of the South American peoples.
Precisely following this historical event, the public garden located on what was the ancient Monte Sacro and in which Simón Bolívar took his oath, was dedicated to him[1]. In the garden in question there is a monument (bust, stele and explanatory panels) dedicated to the historical figure in question.
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