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Rioni di Roma: Trevi Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/20/2013
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This cache is part of the series "Rioni di Roma"
La cache fa parte della serie "Rioni di Roma"

Trevi is the rione II of Rome. The origin of its name is not clear, but the most accepted possibility is that it comes from the Latin trivium (meaning "three streets"), because there were three streets all leading to "piazza dei Crociferi", a square next to the modern Trevi square. Its logo is made of three swords on a red background. This rione, during the Roman republic belonged to the third region, while during the Roman empire was split up into two regions: the VI, called Alta Semita and the VII, called via Lata. During the ancient Roman period, in rione Trevi there were large groups of private houses with some monumental buildings. Since that time the area was actually split up into two parts: a lower one, level and next to the river Tiber, and a higher one on the hills. The first one was one of the center of the activities of the city, while the second one was a rich and peaceful residential area. After the fall of the Roman empire, a lot of people moved away from the hills to settle next to the river, in the lower part. The urbanization followed the people: next to the river Tiber the rione was full of buildings while almost nothing was built again on the hills until the Renaissance. In 1600 urbanization, new streets, churches and fountains caused the rione Trevi to be quite crowded, and it did not change sensibly until the end of the 19th century. The Quirinal hill, partially isolated from the crowded part close to the river, was slowly becoming a center of power thanks to numerous buildings belonging to the Pope. Under the domination of Napoleone Bonaparte, in 1811, the Quirinal was selected to be the center of the imperial power in Rome. The plan was not completed because of the fall of Napoleon, but the idea remained and was partially achieved after Rome became capital of Italy, after the 1870. In fact nowadays several ministers are placed in the rione Trevi.

Tre "misericordie", ovvero tre pugnali, in campo rosso sono il simbolo araldico del rione che potremmo definire il più laico in quanto vi si contano meno chiese che negli altri, anche se quelle esistenti hanno un'antica tradizione e opere d'arte notevoli. Nella topografia archeologica dell'età romana il rione, istituito nel 1743 con chirografo di Benedetto XIV, corrisponde in parte allaantica VI Regio. Il nome deriva da Treio, Treghio, Trevio, che nel Medioevo significò lo sbocco di tre vie (trivium). Ma dove era questo trivio? Probabilmente dove si trovano la fontana di Trevi, monumento più importatnte del Rione, e la chiesa di Santa Maria in Trivio. Nel Medioevo il rione si popolò di torri ghibelline e lo dominarono i Colonna. Nel Rinascimento e nel Seicento Trevi vide rifulgere la Reggia dei Papi (l'attuale palazzo del Quirinale) ed il poderoso palazzo Barberini. Un grande inquilino del rione fu Michelangelo Buonarroti che morì vecchissimo, a 89 anni (1564), in una casa a Macel de' Corvi oggi sparita, che si trovava vicino a piazza Venezia. Fu sepolto nel chiostro della chiesa dei Santi Apostoli, ma il cadavere fu trafugato nottetempo e trasportato a Firenze. Dopo il 1870 il rione cambiò notevolmente aspetto a causa delle demolizioni che portarono alla luce nuove arterie: vennero aperte via del Tritone, il Traforo Umberto I, via Regina Elena (l'attuale via Barberini).
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