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Prima Porta is a suburb of Rome located 12 kilometres north of its center along the Via Flaminia and just a kilometre outside of the Grande Raccordo Anulare highway. It is located on the right bank of the Tiber where the Via Tiberina leads away from the Via Flaminia and another road led off along the Cremera to Veii (Latitude: 42.000992° - Longitude: 12.493380° 〔The location reported by Google Earth is wrong.〕). The location was strategically important due to the iron-rich cliffs of red tuff that approach the river at this point, the confluence of several roads, and its function as the north entry point to Rome. The name Prima Porta (First Door) came from an arch of the aqueduct that brought water to the Villa of Livia, which formed over Via Flaminia a sort of gateway which travellers saw as the first indication of having reached Rome (Piperno). One of the most famous statues of the Divine Augustus was found in the general area of Prima Porta in 1863. ==Modern Prima Porta== In 1965, heavy rains made two near Tiber tributaries, which had no protective banks, to flood the area, generating infrastructural and economic damage. Water level was two meters high at some points. Prima Porta houses, along the Via Flaminia, Rome's biggest cemetery, ''Cimitero Flaminio'', also known as ''Cimitero di Prima Porta''. The population of the XV Municipio (formerly the XX Municipio), the administrative unit that includes Prima Porta, was 146,000 as of the census of June 7, 2001. 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「Prima Porta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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