When one thinks of September 20th, the mind immediately turns to the capture of Rome and the Breach of Porta Pia, the culminating moment of the Italian Risorgimento. And it is precisely on September 20th that the association Muri per Tutti, passionately led by archaeologist Valeria Di Cola, is proposing a small journey to rediscover the events, and the places, that marked the action of the "breach."
It will be an opportunity — as the association intends — to paint a historical, architectural and functional picture of the northern section of the Aurelian Walls, the best-preserved stretch, observing in particular the segment from Porta Nomentana to the now-vanished Porta Salaria (today's Piazza Fiume). Here, Napoleonic stories have intertwined with the lives of artists who shaped the history of Rome as capital city, such as the sculptor Ettore Ferrari and his sons, as well as fragments of the Salarian necropolis. By directly engaging with this tangle of historical phases, a historical and archaeological portrait will be drawn of one of the city's most evocative and significant sites.
The event, for those wishing to attend, begins at 10 o'clock at the Gran Caffè Fagiano Reale.
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