Testaccio

The Emporium Port was the meeting place of goods and raw materials (marble, wheat and wine) that arrived by sea from the Port of Ostia, went up the river on barges towed by buffaloes. Over the centuries, the pieces of transport amphorae accumulated in mound, hence the name of Testaccio Mount (or Pottery Mount) and the choice of the "amphora" as a symbol of the district. The number of stacked amphorae is estimated at around 25 million: the empty jars were broken in pieces, then arranged and sprinkled with lime. Testaccio is a typical example of industrial urbanization: born as a separate residential settlement, the district within the walls was born as an offshoot residential destined to the workers at the end of the nineteenth century. The many taverns and restaurants of the past, have now been transformed into pubs and restaurants that perpetuates the "living" vocation in the ward. In the old slaughterhouse it was installed a section of the MACRO and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre.