Parione

Rome -- medieval

Praelocutio

Parione is the VI rione of Rome.

Its name comes from the fact that in the area there was a huge ancient wall, maybe belonging to the stadium of Domitianus; the nickname people gave to this wall was Parietone ("big wall" in ancient Italian), from which the name "Parione". Its logo is a rampant griffin, a Greek mythological creature with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. It was chosen as a symbol of pride and nobility.

Historia

During Antiquity, it belonged to the IX Augustan region called Circo Flaminio. In this area Domitianus built his stadium and an Odeon (Odeum in Latin), for musical and poetic competitions. Pompey built his curia.

Around the 1200 the area was called Parione e S. Lorenzo in Damaso and the population kept on increasing until the 1400, when it obtained a great importance thanks to the paving of Campo de' Fiori, that soon became an important economic center.

Locorum

Churches

Santa Barbara dei Librai

Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova)

San Lorenzo in Damaso

Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore (San Giacomo degli Spagnoli)

Sant'Agnese in Agone

San Nicola dei Lorenesi

Natività di Gesù

San Tommaso in Parione

San Pantaleo

Inns & Taverns

Nigrum Unicornis -- (Inn of the Black Unicorn)

Piazza (public square)

Campo de Fiori

Loci Greges

Grifoni: The griffins of Parione are an old and powerful gang who have begun to lose ground to the younger gangs of Rome.

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