Servian Wall

However, during the Roman civil wars, Servian walls repeatedly were taken.

By this time, Rome had already begun to grow outside the original Servian Wall.

During the early Roman period, the territory occupied by Sant'Angelo lay outside the Servian walls, east of the island.

Rome held a million within her Servian Walls, Antioch more, but neither could rival Alexandria, a city less than three hundred years old.

We know the dimensions of the city within the Servian Walls: one-plus kilometers in width, two-plus kilometers in length.

Servian Walls Murus Servii Tullii.

This was one of the two most strategic gates in Rome's Servian Walls (the other was the Colline Gate).

The Servian Wall, built to defend the city of Rome in the 4th century BC, is also built almost entirely from tuff.

They were situated right on the banks of the Tiber, half inside the Servian Walls, half outside, though they had probably originally lain entirely inside.

The Agger was a part of Rome's Servian Walls, and protected the city on its most vulnerable side, the Campus Esquilinus.

Though thought to have built the Servian Walls (which he didn't), he probably did build the Agger, the great double rampart of the Campus Esquilinus.

Campus Lanatarius An area of flattish ground inside the Servian Walls on that part of the Aventine adjacent to the walls.

Since no one inside the Servian Walls kept a stable, Caesar walked out of Rome, though not by any route an enterprising usurer might have thought to watch.

There were four temples in a row outside the Servian Walls in the vegetable markets: Pietas, Janus, Spes, and Juno Sospita.

Not only that, but the Servian Walls had intruded upon its back, so he had paid to relocate these massive fortifications in a jog that went around his new forum.

It was located near the Porta Sanqualis of the Servian walls, not far from the modern church of S. Silvestro, precisely on the Collis Mucialis.

The name of Regio VII was derived from the via Flaminia which runs between the Servian walls and the future Aurelian Walls.

Servian Walls The walls the tourist of today sees did not exist under the Republic, whose walls, now buried, were purportedly built by King Servius Tullius.

The archaic inhabited places spread out protected by the so-called Servian walls, made with stone blocks placed in alternate lines and dating back to the beginning of the 3rd century BC.

It contains parts of the Oppian and Cispian (two minor hills close to the city center) and of the Esquiline, plus the plain just outside the Servian walls.

Forum Holitorium The vegetable markets, situated on the bank of the Tiber athwart the Servian Walls between the river and the flank of the Capitoline Mount.

The Port of Rome lay outside the Servian Walls, and was confined to a fairly narrow strip of riverbank by the Aventine cliffs, in which lay the State granaries.

On the eastern side of a great crossroads some hundreds of paces from the Servian Walls stood the temple of Venus Libitina, she who ruled the extinction of the life force.

Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls.

Regio I took its name from the Porta Capena ("Gate to Capua"), a gate through the Servian Walls which the Appian Way takes to get into the city.