AVENTINO
Hill of ancient Rome with an elegant residential area.
The Aventine is the hill of ancient Rome that follows the Palatine, along the Tiber to the south. This hill is constituted by two peaks, the major Aventine and the minor Aventine, better known as San Saba. This was the plebeian area in the Republican period. Namely: the Aventine was the scene of the first proven strike in history, except for the imaginary one of the women in Aristophanes. In the5th century BC, the plebs refused to continue the war. A conciliator named Agrippa told them the famous fable of the limbs and the stomach (see La Fontaine, Book III, 2). They obtained the creation of tribunes of the plebs, a kind of union delegates facing the patricians. Nowadays, the Aventine is an elegant and wooded residential area, quiet and very little frequented, with splendid villas in the middle of numerous paleochristian convents on the top of the hill (S. Sabina, S. Saba, S. Prisca). Not to be missed: the orange garden(il giardino degli aranci) with a splendid view of the Tiber and St. Peter's basilica.
We will also take a nice walk through the streets of the neighborhood. Go there at night, preferably, and walk up Via Santa Sabina to the top. At the top is the Priory of the Knights of Malta, in the Piazza dei Cavallieri di Malta. Head to the gate that closes the grounds - you can't miss it, there's probably a line of curious people lined up in front of it! - and look through the keyhole... Magic guaranteed!
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