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Roma – Roman walls of the Janiculum
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In
the middle of the seventeenth century Urban VII (Maffeo Barberini,
pope from 1623 to 1644) thought ROME (LAZIO) needed new walls along
the side of the Janiculum. The hill by itself already served as a
natural fortress since from the west it loomed over the entire city,
but the old frontier built by Aurelian almost fourteen centuries earlier
was not in good condition and would no longer have been adequate defense.
Restoration project
Reconstruction of the walls with bricks reproducing the original format.