City paves street between Circus Maximus and Aventine Hill.
Rome is replacing an asphalt-covered road on the Aventine Hill with traditional sampietrini cobblestones as part of a slew of public works projects in the city ahead of Jubilee Year 2025.
Con 100mila #sanpietrini, faremo rinascere la storica passeggiata che dal Circo Massimo porta all’Aventino, passando dal Roseto comunale, dal Giardino degli Aranci e dalle Basiliche di Santa Sabina e dei Santi Bonifacio e Alessio, arrivando fino a Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta. pic.twitter.com/DMAB9LojBl
— Roberto Gualtieri (@gualtierieurope) April 8, 2024
The city says that around half of the cobblestones being installed on the Aventine hill will be “recycled” after they were removed two years ago from nearby Via della Piramide Cestia.
The move is part of a plan to replace sampietrini with asphalt on busy streets and doing the opposite on asphalted streets with little or no traffic.
After a number of prominent cobblestoned streets in the capital were asphalted in recent years – including Via Nazionale, Via IV Novembre and Viale Aventino – the first street to undergo the reverse process is Clivo dei Publicii.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said the sampietrini project “will revive an extraordinary historical walk”, while the city’s public works councillor Ornella Segnalini said the aim is “to make Rome more liveable and more beautiful, even after the Jubilee”.
Cover image Clivo dei Publicii. Photo Wanted in Rome, 8 April 2024.