San Lorenzo (Rome)
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Location | Rome, Italy |
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Coordinates: 41°53′50″N 12°30′57″E / 41.897102°N 12.515745°E |
San Lorenzo is an urban zone in Rome, Italy. Administratively it was part of both Municipio II and Quarter VI Tiburtino.
It occupies roughly the two sides of the early stretch of
Originally a working-class neighbourhood (its inhabitants were mostly workers of the Wuehrer Brewery and the freight yard), it has been a popular, left-oriented area. During World War II San Lorenzo was heavily bombed by Allied planes (on 1943-07-19); the only massive bombing of Rome during the war (though not the only air raid on the city), it aimed at disrupting the railway communication pivoting on the nearby huge freight yard; however, it caused also extensive damage to the buildings of the district (including the Policlinico Umberto I and the basilica itself) and killing some 1,500 people.
Maria Montessori's first school (for pupils ages 3-6) was started in San Lorenzo in 1907 under the name "La casa dei bambini". It is still an active publicly-funded nursery, now called "Istituto Comprensivo Maria Montessori".[1]
Today San Lorenzo, due to the vicinity of the
In popular culture
- Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori released in 1982 a song dedicated to the 1943 bombing. It is included in the Titanic album of 1982.
See also
- San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
- Via Tiburtina
- Via Volsci
- Porta Tiburtina
- Campo Verano, cemetery
References
- ^ "Website of Istituto Comprensivo Montessori in Rome". IC Montessori.
- ^ Anderson, Sonja (2 July 2018). "Rome's San Lorenzo Neighbourhood". Romeing.
- Claudio Rendina, Enciclopedia di Roma, Newton Compton, Rome, 1999.