TEMPLE OF HONOR AND VIRTUE

TEMPIO DI HONOS E VIRTUS
Piazza di Porta Capena

Built in the year 234 BC
The location just outside Porta Capena is known, but no trace of it remains

Augustus (27 BC/AD 14) fixed to May 29, the date of the feast of Honos and Virtus

TEMPLE OF HONOS
Built by Quintus Fabius Maximus the Procrastinator (275/203 BC)
Honos was the deified personification of Honor, maybe specifically Military Honor, revered in Rome from the third century BC on

TEMPLE OF VIRTUS
Added in 208 BC by Claudius Marcellus, the conqueror of Syracuse
Virtus was the deified personification of Military Virtue and almost always appears with Honos in literary and epigraphic sources
“All the figurative monuments present Honos as male personification, almost always as a kind of a young man covered with pallium on one shoulder and on the lower part of the body, with naked chest, and bearing in one or both hands attributes, including frequently a cornucopia and an olive branch. We cannot exclude that these iconographic characters would be the main differentiation in worship between Honos and Virtus, the latter being constantly represented with military attributes (helmet) as a warrior god” (Giovanni Scichilone - Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica Treccani)

FAO PALACE

PALAZZO DELLA FAO

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla

1938 Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81) e Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) con Ettore Rossi (1894/1968), Giulio Rinaldi, Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94), Alberto Legnani e Armando Sabatini

Designed as the Ministry of Italian Africa but completed and extended for the new use only in the years 1950/52 by Vittorio Cafiero himself

Headquarters of the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

The building is leased to the UN by the Italian government for the symbolic price of $ 1 per year

Near Piazza di Porta Capena, in front of the building, in 1937 the stele of Axum was placed, an obelisk of the fourth century AD moved here from Ethiopia by the order office Mussolini. In 2005 the obelisk was removed from the square and returned to the Government of Ethiopia

MONUMENT TO GUIDO BACCELLI

MONUMENTO A GUIDO BACCELLI

Piazza Salerno

1931 Attilio Selva (1888/1970) from Trieste

Guido Baccelli (1830/1916) was Minister of Education and Minister of Agriculture several times from 1879 to 1903

He promoted the archaeological walk at Porta Capena, established the National Gallery of Modern Art and promoted the excavations of Pompeii and the Baths of Caracalla

LA VIGNA BOCCAPADULI LITTLE HOUSE

CASINO LA VIGNOLA BOCCAPADULI

Piazzale di Porta Capena

Built in 1538 for Prospero Boccapaduli

It was originally built in a vineyard popularly known as VIGNOLA

It was formerly located on the opposite side of the square

It was reconstructed here in 1911 by Pietro Guidi with modifications to enhance the archaeological walk ordered by the Minister of Education Guido Baccelli

It is the home of the Roman Institute for Italian history from Fascism to Resistance