Rome, cityscape from Belvedere del Pincio - 02
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Rome, cityscape from Belvedere del Pincio - 02
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AM FineArtPrints
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Rome, cityscape from Belvedere del Pincio - 02 by Andrea Mazzocchetti
The Pincio (or Pinciano hill, from the Latin mons Pincius) is a hill of Rome. The hill is located north of the Quirinale, and overlooks the Campo Marzio. Several villas and gardens occupy the hill. From Piazzale Napoleone I, at the top of the hill, there is a wide view of Piazza del Popolo and the Prati district, which rises on those which, until the end of the 19th century, were the Prati di Castello.
The view also extends to the north on the Dome of St. Peter up to Monte Mario, to the north-west the Gianicolo, to the south-west at the bottom of the horizon the skyscrapers of EUR, making it one of the most scenic places in the capital.
In some Italian cities there are panoramic parks that bear the name of Pincio, to remember that of Rome; see the paragraph From the Pincio of Rome to those of other Italian cities.
It was outside the original boundaries of the city and is not part of the seven hills, however it is located within the walls built by the emperor Aureliano between 270 and 273. It was part of the VIIth Augustan regio.
Many important families of Ancient Rome had residences and gardens (horti) on the Pincio in the last republican period: among the well-known personalities, there were Scipione Emiliano's property and perhaps Pompeo. Instead, the presence of Lucullo's possessions, the Horti Lucullani, was secured, where Messalina, Claudio's wife, was later killed, built thanks to the loot achieved with the victory over Mitridate in 63 BC. There were also the Horti Sallustiani, originally owned by the historian Sallustio and later unified to the Lucullian horti in a single property known as Pincis in the imperial era, the Horti Pompeiani, and the Horti Aciliorum, of the Acilii. Due to the presence of these dwellings, the hill was known in antiquity as the Collis Hortulorum (literally "the hill of the gardens"). The current name comes from one of the families that occupied it in the fourth century, the Pincii: their villa, with that of the Ancii and Acilii, occupied the northern part of the hill and a rest of the substructures of these residences is the so-called Muro Torto .
In the Augustan period the royal town underwent intense urbanization: here Agrippa built the Campus Agrippae (dedicated in 7 BC), a villa and its tomb, while his sister Polla built the Porticus Vipsania. Near the Piazza Santi Apostoli was the barracks of the I cohort of the firemen and not far was the pork market, the Forum Suarium.
On the slopes of the hill there was the tomb of the Domizi, in which Nero's ashes were buried.
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