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The port of the market worked since the Roman period, and was the point of landing of the goods and of the first matters (priority marbles, grain, wine) that, arrived by sea from the port of Host, went back the Tiber on chiatte rimorchiate from the buffalo (that in 1842 came replaced with tows to vapor). In the centuries, the pots of amphoras, that were the containers of the period for the movimentazione of grain and liquid food, accumulated themselves to montagnola: hence the name - ancient - of mountain I make one's will or you Ascend some pots, and the choice - modern - of the amphora like symbol of the district. The number of the amphoras stacked it is considered around 25 millions.

Until the discount and to the urban reorganization initiated after 1870, that destined this territory and the long one the via Ostiense until the basilica of san Paolo to industrial activity and of services "weighing" (railroads, slaughterhouse, general markets, buiis some gas - for to do some examples) the zone, that too was within the wall, popular from poor peasants and shepherds, subject to the flood of the It began to the doors of Rome. The space between the mountain of the pots and the wall was to public use, and called "the meadows of the Roman people", and the Romen "of town" attended it for diporto: for them the meadows of the I make one's will were traditional destination of the trips of pasquetta and of the ottobrate.

I make one's will it is a typical example of urbanization industrial nato like installation I inhabited, separated and next, join to places of production: the district within the wall was born, in effects, like residential offshoot destined to the assigned workers to the activity that come installing long the via Ostiense from the end of the 800. From this point of view is a sole example, in Rome , of urbanization programmed.

Already the first slow control of Rome capital, in 1873, expected that the industrial expansion of the town should happen in the zone Ostiense: favored this choice the flat territory and the presence of varieties via of communication - the via just Ostiense, the river with the port of Shore , and the railroad.

The district, as administrative entity, is of enough founding recent: was separated from capital in 1921 from the immense and little one populated district Shore, even if the I make one's will had an its identity from always - and enjoyed of not good reputation, bound just to the you deal some port and of its people - was, well, a species of angiporto of river: still in 1884 in an inquiry of the Commune It held the national supremacy of the consumption of drinks. Left at the Field I make one's will in the years 30 you Enlarge Left at the Field I make one's will in the years 30

District absolutely to populate, from always place of election of the pastimes and of the outings of the Romen, was some a.s.roma. cherishes it. The numerous fraschette, taverns and restaurants of a time (favored from the fact that to I make one's will the town Slaughterhouse was located, and little distant the general Markets) have transformed now in pub and refreshing, that perpetuate of it the vocation "divertentistica". And since the it you please food they do not exclude those intellectual, in the old Slaughterhouse a section of the MACRO one it was installed, and to the mountain of the Pots has its seat the School Populate of Music of I make one's will.

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Shore, San Saba, district Ostiense (Town Hall 12), the Tiber .

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Maria Liberatrice (party for the badge of the Rome , June 2001)

* Holy Maria Liberatrice: is the church of the people testaccino, and - practically sole case in Rome - the alone one of the district, if it is excluded the hat of the Cemetery acattolico. Built in the beginning of the '900 like parish of the district that was still lacking, the titulus was transferred them that was been of Holy Maria Antiqua to the Roman Hole, demolished in those years. You have transferred the altar of the ancient church, and the mosaic of the facade reproduces of it a decoration.

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* Mountain of the pots * Cemetery acattolico