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Sant' Angelo is the xi district of Rome. Its coat of arms represents an angelo on red background, with a branch of palm in the left hand. In another version, the angelo appears with a sword in the hand right hand and a balance in the political left [1].

Sant' Angelo is the smallest one between the Roman districts. It it is found on the left bank of the Tiber before the of the tiber island, confining in hourly sense from north to east with THE districts of Rule, Sant' Eustachio, Pigna, Campitelli and Shore. To southwest it is appeared on the river.

The territory of the district is flat and, being very low, until the construction of the muraglioni specially was exhibited to the full of the river.

The historical importance of the district derives above all from the presence on its territory of the Ghetto of the Jews. During the first Roman age, the territory of Sant' Angelo is found to the of outside the Wall serviane but, being actual place facing the island, where the river - at least in summer - was able to be guadato easily, it had large strategic importance. The bridges Cestio and Fabricio, built in the course of the first century AC, connecting the island respectively with the bank right hand and that political left of the river, increased still the importance of the area [2].

During the empire the district divenne leaves some Royal IX (Circus Flaminius), that taken the name from the second circus of Rome in order of size, here built during the third century AC from Cheerful Flaminio Nepote. The area around the Circus Flaminio[3], rising near the Capitol and the Roman Hole, was destined from Augusto to be part of the monumental center of Rome, with buildings dedicated to theatrical representations (the Theater of Marcello [4] and Balbo [5]), and templi.

Besides, two magnificent Porticos, both republican reconstructions of Porticos, had been built towards the end of the first century AC: The Porticus Octaviae and the Porticus Philippi. The first one was raised from Augusto, that its sister dedicated it Ottavia[6], the second was raised from its father-in-law Filippo [7].

It leaves some necessary space for these buildings was obtained to the expenditures of the Circus Flaminio, that was therefore dismantled from Augusto [8].

Rome hotels, Rome rent a car information, maps of Rome The medieval age: Sant' Angelo in hole piscium The Fishmarket in road of the Portico of ottavia (ca.1860). The marble slabs where the fish was sold are visible on both the sides of the road. The houses on the political left had been demolished together to the Ghetto in 1885, while those on the right hand exist still, and accommodate some between the better refreshing of Jewish kitchen. You enlarge The Fishmarket in road of the Portico of ottavia (ca.1860). The marble slabs

where the fish was sold are visible on both the sides of the road. The houses on the political left had been demolished together to the Ghetto in 1885, while those on the right hand exist still, and accommodate some between the better refreshing of Jewish kitchen.

After the end of the empire, the monumental buildings caddero in ruin [9], but some between of you are had been transformed in fortilizi. Different factors played an important role in this transformation: before all, the volume and the solidity of construction; therefore, the neighborhood to the Tiber (after the destruction of the waterworks During the gothic War, the river divenne the alone drinking source of water for the town). Finally, the possibility of to monitor the access to the means right hand bank the Bridges Fabricio, Cestio and Emilio [10], the only still passable to the inside of the perimeter of the wall Aureliane in the beginning of the medieval age.

The families baronali of the Fabi and - more late - of the Savelli, which on the aventino possessed also the stronghold called Short Savella, themselves nested within the ruins of the theater of Marcello, while the Stefaneschi built within the Theater and it Encrypts of Balbo the castle called Castrum aureum, that more late gave to the monastery of Holy Caterina.

The market of the fish is moved instead from the Hole Piscario, situated near the Roman Hole, between the ruins of the Portico of ottavia, and rhymed lí until the end of the nineteenth century, becoming one of the most picturesque places of Rome .

During the medieval age the district taken the name of Vinea Thedemari, while its part northern venne called Calcaràrio, from the to Press on (oven for the Lime), that for centuries produssero the Lime obtained burning the marbles of the Holes.

More late apparve also the present name Sant' Angelo, from the church more mattering some district, Sant' Angelo in Hole Piscium ("Sant' Angelo in fishmarket").

Sant' Angelo today

To the dawn of the twenty-first century Sant' Angelo remains an of the zones more features in the old one Rome . While the northern part of the district, with its cobweb of tight and lonely alleys that protect it from the I deal, maintains a truly residential character, the southern part always is characterized from the strong presence israeleitica. The roads around the Portico of ottavia maintain things' the atmosphere of a village, and accommodate different negozietti (conducts for the more from Jews) and a lot of Restaurants, that, with their carciofi to the giudia and braids of cod, perpetuate the tradition of the Israeli kitchen romanesca.

The presence of a strong Israeli community gives back necessary a continuous presence - even if reasonable - of Police and military Policemen, lined up above all in the neighborhoods of the Synagogue, so as to to anticipate made an attempt.

Sant' Angelo accommodates also different cultural founding, like l' Italian Encyclopedia, the National Disco and the American Study center, that possiede the European library more mattering having like subject the United States [43].

Rome hotels, Rome rent a car information, maps of Rome THE boundaries

* Pigna: Flourishing road, road of the Dark Shops * Campitelli: road of the aracoeli, alley and square Margana, road of the Dolphins, via Tripods, road of the Platform of Campitelli, Mountain road, road of the Theater of Marcello * Shore: road of the

Hole Olitorio, road of Mountain Savello * the Tiber: Tiber embankment of the Rags * Rule: road of the Progress, square of Five Drains, road of holy Maria of the I Plant, road in Publicolis * Sant' Eustachio: road of the Carpenters, road of Sant' Elena,

wide Arenula

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* square Mattei * square of five Drains

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* Road of the Portico of ottavia

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* Theater of Marcello * Portico of Ottavia * Palace Mattei of Jupiter * Palace Mattei of Paganica * Palace of

Giacomo Mattei * Palace Costaguti * Palace Caetani * Palace Santacroce * House of the Valleys * House of

Lorenzo Manili * Hotel of the chain * Palace Orsini Savelli

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* Holy Caterina of the Funari * Sant' Angelo in Fishmarket * Oratory of the pescivendoli * San Gregorio of the

Divine Pity * Holy Stanislao of the Poles * Holy Rite from Falls down * Holy Maria in Campitelli * San Nicola

in Prison * Saint Ambrose to the greatest one

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* Synagogue * Fountain of the Tortoises * Fountain of Square Giudea