Aurelian Wall

Aurelian Wall

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1356

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Late Antique

city gates

city walls

fortresses

View of a section of the Aurelian Wall in Rome, Italy. "The wall circuits of Rome (recinto) can be thought of as roughly concentric in nature, emanating out from the city’s pre-historic core at, or near, the ancient Roman Forum. The encircling hills and enfolding valleys helped to define these human lines of demarcation whereby natural rifts in the landscape were exploited to establish lines of defense ... Rome soon outgrew the Republican walls and became so powerful a force in Italy and the Mediterranean that it felt no need for city walls until the late 4th century A.D. when the Barbarian pressure from the east began to threaten the empire,"--from The Walls of Rome by Jim Tice and Allan Ceen on the Architecture and Urbanism, University of Oregon website.

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