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Sin from the period direction, the area was consecrated to the god Mars, and used to military exercises. Tarquinius the Proud one if took possession of it and the fece to cultivate grain. According to a legend, during the rebellion that caused hunted it some king, the covoni of that grain had been thrown in the river giving origin to the of the tiber island. With the beginning of the republican period, the Field Marzio returned public area and was riconsacrato to the god. It was seat of the comitia centuriata, assemblies of the people in arms.

The southern part of the plain, to leave from the slopes of the Capitol (where at present are visible the restive of the theater of Marcello and of the portico of Ottavia) was distinguished from the Field true and actual Marzio, with the place name of Circus Flaminio. The area was gone through from the via Flaminia, whose urban part taken the Wide name of road (present road of the Course).

The sacred foundations of buildings leave from the first one of the king of Rome , Romolo and continue until everything TWO century to. C.. They came yourselves besides built porticos and private buildings and yourselves ebbero of the possessions Publio Cornelio Scipio the African and Pompeo.

At first the zone, since was at the of outside the official boundaries of the town (pomerio), venne used for give audience to foreign ambassadors and more easily upright places of religion for the deity eastern came yourselves.

The beginning of the monumentalizzazione of the area itself ebbe with the theater of Pompeo in 55 to. C.. With Cesare had been systemized the awkward buildings to the elections, the Saepta Julia (completed from Augusto) and the Villa publica.

In period augustea, I Mark Vipsanio Agrippa introduced the gardens, the baths with its name and the Pantheon. You have built also an amphitheater (Statilio Tauro) and a theater (theater of Balbo).

The zone done not build verse north was dominated from the mausoleo of Augusto and from the solar clock (Orologium Augusti) formed from an extensive public in marble, the that restive I am today visible in the excavations to S. Lorenzo in Lucina, and for gnomone the obelisk today to square Montecitorio. In the birth day of the emperor, the shadow of the gnomone reached the entrance of the ara Pacis, the deliberate monument from the Senate to remember the peace and the supporting stability from the government of Augusto, that integrated this large complex I celebrated and funerario.

Likely to Caligola it is had to the first construction of the temple dedicated to Iside. Underneath Nerone had been built other baths to its name and a bridge.

After the large fire of Rome of the year 80 DC Domitian rebuilded the monuments adding a stadium (that diverrà then square Navona) and an odeion (small building for covered shows, in shape of small theater). Adriano transformed the complex one of the Pantheon and placed in the northern part, bound to the imperial funerals, the templi of Matidia and Marciana. Subsequently they had been built yourselves the temple of Adriano, and had been raised yourselves a column dedicated to Pious Antonino and the Column Antonina, dedicated to Mark Aurelio, that copied the Column Trajan.

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With the cut of the waterworks during the sieges of the Greek wars-gothic in the YOURSELVES century and the consequent greater specific convenience from the neighborhood of the river, and later on to the creation of a new city pole in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vatican, pilgrimages center, the area of the Field Marzio divenne the most populated district some Rome medieval.

The district was gone through from the route of the procession that lead the neo pope elected between San Pietro and the residence to San Giovanni in Laterano. The area was besides go through from the more important artery than one continued to connect Rome col I stay of Europe, the road Erases, This, after to be be reunited to the via Flaminia entered in town across the door of the People; the urban stroke preserved still the ancient Wide name of road and constituted an important city route.

The woven building of the district specially it was fixed between the monumental emergencies of the restive of the ancient buildings still preserved, route from a thick net of tight roads, centered on the pre-existing via Romen and on the crossing of the Tiber verse San Pietro with Bridge Sant' Angelo.

The Field modern Marzio

The successive interventions decreased (cites almost only the accommodation of square of the People), moving itself in other zones of the town in development or revolting itself to the infrastructures. Bulky interventions also in the Field Marzio took again when Rome capital divenne of the Kingdom of Italy in 1870.

Almost immediately they came built the embankments on the Tiber , to avoid the flood, traveled from the novelties "tiber embankment" and had been built the new bridges. In the woven urban pre-existing itself ebbero the sventramenti of via Arenula, of run Vittorio Emanuele and of run Renaissance, while the large intense activities of liberation of the fascist period interested the alone zone in the part of square Augusto Emperor, where rose the mausoleo of Augusto.

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* District Flaminio (Town Hall TWO) : long the wall to political left of Door of the People, square Flaminio * Ludovisi: road of Door Pinciana, via Francesco Crispi * Column: via Francesco Crispi, via Head the

Houses, road of Two Slaughter, via Frattina, square San Lorenzo in Lucina, road of Field Marzio * Sant' Eustachio: square I Live Marzio, road of the Asterisk, road of the Portugueses * Bridge: road of the Gate

* and the Tiber .

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* Square of the People * Square of Spain * Square Nicosia

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* Via Mouth of Lion * Via Borgognona * Road of the Conducts * Road of the Babuino * Road of the Course * Road

of the Cross * Road says' Prefects * Road of Ripetta * Via Margutta * Via Sistine Chapel * Via Tomacelli * Via

Victory * Gregorian Road

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* Middle-class Palace * Palace Florence * Palace Ruspoli

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* Trinità of the Mountains

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* Pincio * Medical Villa

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* Ara Pacis * Mausoleo of Augusto