TIBURTINA WAY

VIA TIBURTINA
Via Tiburtina

Extremely ancient road probably drawn on protohistorical routeslinked to transhumance

It was used by the pilgrims who visited the shrines of Tibur, Tivoli today
Later it became the road used by the Roman nobility to sojourn in summer villas in the surrounding countryside

The beginning of the road was Porta Esquilina (The Arch of Gallienus) of the Servian Wall and it used to pass the Aurelian Walls through the Porta Tiburtina (St. Lawrence Gate)

It was extended in 307 BC up to Corfinium (current Corifinio near L'Aquila) in the territories of the Equi and Marsi peoples, at the behest of the consul Marcus Valerius Maximus with the name of VIA TIBURTINA VALERIA, to facilitate political control of Rome in those provincial areas

In less than 200 km across the Apennines it used to connect Rome with the Adriatic Sea, reaching up to Ostia Aterni, today's Pescara
It still connects today Rome with Pescara with the name STRADA STATALE 5 VIA TIBURTINA

From the Tiburtina Valeria road came off two important roads:

VIA EMPOLITANA from Tivoli to Ciciliano (Empolum), Bellegra and Olevano

VIA SUBLACENSE commissioned by Nerone (54/68) for access to his villa in Subiaco

INA CASA TIBURTINO IV NEIGHBORHOOD

QUARTIERE INA-CASA TIBURTINO IV

Via Tiburtina km 7/Via Filippo Fiorentini/Via Alfredo Comandini

1950/56 Ludovico Quaroni (1911/87) with Mario Ridolfi (1904/84)

Area consisting of 8.8 hectares (22 acres) with 771 lodgings for about 4.000 inhabitants and unfortunately incorporated by the larger civil constructions built later

It belongs to a period, immediately after the Second World War, unfortunately short, during which the architects had in mind and still pursued the welfare of those who would live in the buildings they designed, not compromising yet with the lack of scruples of civil constructions companies

“One of the most representative examples of low-budget civil planning in the postwar period which, in terms of architectural research, is the manifesto of Neorealism. The recovery of popular culture is in opposition both to the rhetoric of the fascist regime, and to the icy and alienating experiences of internationalism in the postwar period. The project provides for the creation of an urban nucleus on a human scale, which gives the image of a small and sleepy town” (Giorgio Muratore)

“The enormous and rapid urban development, especially private, that has surrounded the Roman quarters of INA House, formally completed and isolated in the city of the Fifties, has expanded - not only to the Tiburtino IV - the bitter self-criticism formulated by Ludovico Quaroni already at the end the Fifties: to have created a village closed in itself and unable to communicate with the city. The attempt promoted by the plan to reconcile the necessity of living with that of building was modeled in its various territorial applications, but does not establish itself as a paradigmatic transformation of the city” (Alice Sotgia)

INA CASA MAMMOLO BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD

QUARTIERE INA-CASA PONTEMAMMOLO

Via Tiburtina km 9,2, Via Lanciano, Via Campotosto

1959/62 Giuseppe Vaccaro (1896/1970) designed the SOUTHERN AREA and Luigi Vagnetti (1915/80) the NORTH WEST AREA

It is situated between the Via Tiburtina and the Aniene River and it is inhabited by about 3000 people in 562 apartments

“It is distinguished by the peculiarity of the typological and architectural solutions adopted and the richness of the internal distribution of individual blocks. It constitutes a reference model for settlements with low population density” (Giorgio Muratore)

“He worked often in official commissions, and participated in the monumentality of the time by searching sometimes a futuristic interpretation, with elements in the language of Rationalism (Rome, Ministry of Corporations, today of Industry, Via Veneto, 1928/31, with Marcello Piacentini, Naples, Palazzo delle Poste, 1929/35, with Gino Franzi). His executive accuracy and the use of rationalist terms within a symmetrical architectural system (...) had considerable influence on Italian architecture” (Enciclopedia Treccani)

MAMMOLO BRIDGE

PONTE MAMMOLO

Via degli Alberini

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

It was made in opus quadratum of travertine marble and tuff stone with two large arches, of which remains only part of the eastern span and the base of the pillar of the central one

Its original structure probably consisted of three arches with the central one larger

It was known as Mammolo since 1338 perhaps for having been attributed to Giulia Mammea, the mother of Septimius Severus (193/211), or more likely for a language contraction from marmoreus being the original in travertine

It was destroyed by the French in 1849

The NEW MAMMOLO BRIDGE further north was rebuilt in the years 1853/57 for Pius IX Mastai-Ferretti (1846/78) and restored in 1871