Insula dell'Ara Coeli

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_dell%27Ara_Coeli

Descripcion foto: The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. It was built during the 2nd century AD, and rediscovered, under an old church, when Benito Mussolini initiated a plan for massive urban renewal of Rome's historic Capitoline Hill neighborhood. Four floors remain. The ground floor consisted of shops that faced the surrounding streets, with the owners using ladders to access living quarters immediately above. A mezzanine lay above the shop level. The two remaining floors seem to have been designed for human residence. Archaeologists believe the structure was originally built with at least five stories. It has been evaluated that the insula romana could host around 380 people.

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