Tuscolano
Sign in to saveTuscolano is the 8th quartiere of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. VIII. The name derives from the ancient road Via Tuscolana. It belongs to the Municipio V and Municipio VII.
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- Official name
- Tuscolano
- Population
- 99218
- Area
- 715.72
- Dialing code
- 06
- Licence plate code
- RM
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- native label
- Q. VIII Tuscolano
- Commons category
- Quartiere VIII - Tuscolano
- official number of town quarter
- 208
- inception
- 1921-08-20
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Tuscolano is the 8th quartiere of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. VIII. The name derives from the ancient road Via Tuscolana. It belongs to the Municipio V and Municipio VII.
== History == The origins of the territory - which, as for the landscape, social and cultural aspect is now totally similar to Appio-Latino - can be dated back to the Middle Age, when the road that gave it its name, the Via Tuscolana, was first mentioned in a papal seal Honorius III issued in 1217. The road was built to link Rome with Tusculum but does not seem to have a classical origin: nothing to do with the road has the imperial mausoleum known as Monte del Grano (which was related to the nearby Roman villa called Ad Duas Lauros), nor do the columbaria of Via Pescara, which were probably built along a cross street of the Via Labicana. The first archaeological vestige that can be certainly connected to the Via Tuscolana is the Torre del Quadraro, a 12th-century guard tower.
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