CHAIR OF THE DEVIL

SEDIA DEL DIAVOLO
Piazza Elio Callisto - Nomentano

 First half of the second century AD

It was the tomb of one Helium Callistius, a freedman of Hadrian (117/138)

The common name Sedia del Diavolo (Chair of the Devil) with which this tomb is known is because of its shape: with the collapse of the façade it took the unusual shape of a monumental chair of a bishop, and that turned on the popular imagination
In the area a PREHISTORIC SITE was found dating back to more than 200,000 years ago

NOMENTANO BRIDGE

PONTE NOMENTANO

Via Nomentana 414

Built in the Republican period so that the VIA NOMENTANA could pass the ANIENE RIVER

It was destroyed by the Goths of Totila in the year 549

Rebuilt by the Byzantine general Narses in 552

The current upper part dates back to that time, while the central arch is of the first century AD

It was fortified under Pope Adrian I (772/795)

Restored under Nicholas V Parentucelli (1447/51) and also under Innocent X Pamphilj (1644/55)

After being damaged in 1849 by the French army it was again restored

Now it is inserted in a PUBLIC PARK and the stretch of Via Nomentana to which it belongs has been closed to traffic