Torrione prenestino
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Contact Torrione prenestino
| Address : | Via Prenestina, 73, 00176 Roma RM, Italy |
| Phone : | 📞 +98 |
| Website : | http://www.060608.it/ |
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| City : | Roma |
| Description : | Petite green space with a playground & the remains of a circular-shaped Roman mausoleum. |
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Andrea Remine on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Il cosiddetto Torrione era uno dei più grandiosi mausolei di Roma a forma di tumulo contenuto in un poderoso tamburo circolare (circa m. 41 di diametro) che doveva essere rivestito esternamente da blocchi di travertino dei quali oggi non resta traccia. La sua fisionomia originaria è stata snaturata dalla completa eliminazione del tumulo di terra dopo la seconda guerra mondiale e dalla successiva demolizione di parte del tamburo in occasione dell’allargamento della via Prenestina; inoltre, dopo il 1980 furono eliminate le casupole che erano state costruite a ridosso del monumento. L’ingresso si trovava sul lato opposto della via Prenestina e tramite un corridoio all’interno del tumulo si accedeva alla camera sepolcrale con tre nicchie rettangolari, i due ambienti erano in opera quadrata a blocchi di tufo e coperti con volta a botte. I bombardamenti della guerra causarono il crollo di una parte del corridoio e lo smottamento di numerosi blocchi della cella. Il sepolcro è datato all’età augustea, ma non si conosce il nome del suo destinatario, infatti non esistono prove a favore delle attribuzioni ipotizzate da alcuni studiosi. Rimase prima compreso in una vigna, poi nel corso del 1400 in proprietà Rufini fu adibito a cantina, a fianco fu eretta una torre a due piani. Alla fine del XVI fu ceduto ai Padri Domenicani Irlandesi che vi addossarono un casale ed un pozzo, ancora esistente e rifatto nel 1800.
 The so-called Torrione was one of the most grandiose mausoleums in Rome in the shape of a tumulus contained in a mighty circular drum (about 41 meters in diameter) which had to be covered externally with travertine blocks of which no trace remains today. Its original appearance was distorted by the complete elimination of the mound of earth after the Second World War and by the subsequent demolition of part of the drum on the occasion of the enlargement of Via Prenestina; moreover, after 1980 the huts that had been built close to the monument were eliminated. The entrance was located on the opposite side of Via Prenestina and through a corridor inside the mound you entered the burial chamber with three rectangular niches, the two rooms were in square work with tuff blocks and covered with a barrel vault. The bombings of the war caused the collapse of a part of the corridor and the landslide of numerous blocks of the cell. The tomb is dated to the Augustan age, but the name of its recipient is not known, in fact there is no evidence in favor of the attributions hypothesized by some scholars. It was first included in a vineyard, then in the course of the 1400s owned by Rufini it was used as a cellar, next to it a two-storey tower was erected. At the end of the 16th century it was ceded to the Irish Dominican Fathers who leaning against it a farmhouse and a well, which still exists and was rebuilt in 1800.
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Anik Sarkar on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nice
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T.H. TUHIN on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Good
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Ricardo Rosales Jr on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Public place...for gathering and happening..
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Bonita D on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Nice but small, could have more benches.
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SANDEEP KRISHNAN on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A small park in the suburbs of Rome was really nice but could be better
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Luca Tomao on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A very beautiful tiny park. An ancient tomb, unfortunately not open to people, is part of it.
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Xiaoxuan Li on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A small park suitable for walking the dog.
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