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The ''Insula Romana'' (literally "Roman island", meaning "Roman block") is a building dating back to the 2nd century AD, set in Via del Teatro di Marcello in Rome (Italy), at the base of the Capitoline Hill and close to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. ==History== The building, formerly five floors high, dates back to the 2nd century and is a quite accurate testimony of the extensive city planning in Rome during the imperial age, as well as similar examples in Ostia Antica. During Middle Ages, the little church of San Biagio del Mercato was established in the higher part of the building ("mercato" means "market" in Italian: in fact on this slope of the Capitoline Hill an open-air market took place till the 15th century). On the medieval church another church, dedicated to Saint Rita of Cascia, was built in 1653 (under the pontificate of Pope Alexander VII Chigi, architect Carlo Fontana): it was dismantled in the 1930s, during the works of adaptation of the Vittoriano, and rebuilt not far, at the corner with Via Montanara, in 1937-40. Its demolition revealed the underlying Roman building, that was preserved (unlike many other buildings in the area). Of the medieval oratory only the tower bell and a frescoed apse still survive; the main scene of the fresco depicts Christ's burial, with Mary and St. John. All the structures, included the tower bell, have very small sizes. The "insula" was discovered between 1931 and 1942, during the works for the "isolation" of the Capitoline Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Insula Romana (Capitoline Hill)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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