Administrative subdivisions of Rome

Municipi of Rome
The fifteen Rome municipi
Category	Local government districts
Location	Rome
Created	19 January 2001
Number	15 (as of 2013)
Populations	130,000–300,000
Areas	20–180 km2
Government	President and Municipal Council(s)

The city of Rome, Italy is divided into first-level administrative subdivisions.

There are 15 municipi (singular: municipio) in the city; each municipio is governed by a president and a council who are elected directly by its residents every five years. The municipi collectively comprise the comune of Rome, which is itself one of the constituent parts of the wider metropolitan city of Rome Capital.

History[]

On 31 March 1966, for administrative purposes and to increase decentralization, the territory of the comune of Rome was divided into 12 administrative areas, called circoscrizioni (singular: circoscrizione). On 11 February 1972 those areas were increased to 20.

On 6 March 1992, after the referendum that ratified the separation of the then Circoscrizione XIV from Rome and the birth of the new independent comune of Fiumicino, the number of administrative areas of Rome decreased to 19.

On 19 January 2001, circoscrizioni which were renamed municipi and the direct election of a President to head each municipio was established.^[1]

On 11 March 2013, Rome City Council decided to merge some of the municipi, reducing their number to 15 and giving them a new numeration.^[2]

Municipi[]

Municipio	Population 31 December 2015	Area in km2	Density per km2	Map
Municipio I – Historical Center	186,802	19.91	9,382
Municipio II – Parioli/Nomentano	167,736	19.60	8,567
Municipio III – Monte Sacro	204,514	97.82	2,091
Municipio IV – Tiburtina	177,084	49.15	3,603
Municipio V – Prenestino/Centocelle	246,471	27.00	9,137
Municipio VI – Roma Delle Torri	256,261	113.40	2,261
Municipio VII – Appio-Latino/Tuscolano/Cinecittà	307,607	46.80	6,580
Municipio VIII – Appia Antica	131,082	47.29	2,772
Municipio IX – EUR	180,511	183.17	985
Municipio X – Ostia/Acilia	230,544	150.64	1,530
Municipio XI – Arvalia/Portuense	154,871	70.90	2,185
Municipio XII – Monte Verde	140,996	73.12	1,928
Municipio XIII – Aurelia	133,813	68.70	1,949
Municipio XIV – Monte Mario	190,513	131.30	1,451
Municipio XV – Cassia/Flaminia	158,561	186.70	849

Presidents of the municipi[]

For the current legislature (2016–2021), presidents of Rome's municipi are:

N.	President	Party		Mayoral majority
I	Sabrina Alfonsi		PD
II	Francesca Del Bello		PD
III	Giovanni Caudo		PD
IV	Roberta Della Casa		M5S	Y
V	Giovanni Boccuzzi		M5S	Y
VI	Roberto Romanella		M5S	Y
VII	Monica Lozzi		M5S	Y
VIII	Amedeo Ciaccheri		SI
IX	Dario D'Innocenti		M5S	Y
X	Giuliana Di Pillo		M5S	Y
XI	Mario Torelli		M5S	Y
XII	Silvana Crescimanno		M5S	Y
XIII	Giuseppina Castagnetta		M5S	Y
XIV	Alfredo Campagna		M5S	Y
XV	Stefano Simonelli		M5S	Y

Urban subdivision of Rome[]

The comune of Rome is also composed of 155 urban zones (zone urbanistiche), conceived as a subdivision of the municipi, which were established in 1977 for statistical and city planning purposes on the basis of urban homogeneity criteria. Boundaries were drafted taking account of the discontinuities in Rome's urban pattern The urban zones are identified by an alphanumeric code that consists of a letter and of the number of the municipio where the zone was located: indeed, the municipi were reduced from 20 to 15 in 2013, but the alphanumeric codes were not revised.

• Municipio I: 1A Centro Storico, 1B Trastevere, 1C Aventino, 1D Testaccio, 1E Esquilino, 1F , 1G Celio, 1X Archeological zone, 17A Prati, 17B , 17C ;
• Municipio II: 2A , 2B Parioli, 2C , 2D , 2E , 2X Villa Borghese, 2Y Villa Ada, 3A , 3B San Lorenzo, 3X , 3Y Verano
• Municipio III: 4A Monte Sacro, 4B Val Melaina, 4C Monte Sacro Alto, 4D , 4E , 4F , 4G , 4H , 4I , 4L Aeroporto dell' Urbe, 4M , 4N , 4O
• Municipio IV: 5A , 5B , 5C , 5D , 5E , 5F Tor Cervara, 5G , 5H , 5I , 5L Settecamini
• Municipio V: 6A , 6B , 6C , 6D , 7A , 7B , 7C , 7D , 7E Tor Tre Teste, 7F , 7G , 7H
• Municipio VI: 8A , 8B , 8C , 8D , 8E , 8F , 8G , 8H
• Municipio VII: 9A , 9B , 9C , 9D , 9E , 10A , 10B , 10C Quarto Miglio, 10D , 10E , 10F , 10G , 10H , 10I , 10L , 10X
• Municipio VIII: 11A Ostiense, 11B Valco San Paolo, 11C Garbatella, 11D , 11E , 11F , 11G , 11X , 11Y
• Municipio IX: 12A , 12B , 12C , 12D , 12E Cecchignola, 12F , 12G Spinaceto, 12H , 12I , 12L , 12M , 12N , 12X Tor di Valle
• Municipio X: 13A , 13B , 13C , 13D , 13E Ostia Antica, 13F , 13G , 13H Castel Fusano, 13I Infernetto, 13X
• Municipio XI: 15A , 15B Portuense, 15C , 15D , 15E Magliana, 15F , 15G Ponte Galeria
• Municipio XII: 16A , 16B , 16C , 16D Gianicolense, 16E Massimina, 16F , 16X Villa Pamphili
• Municipio XIII: 18A , 18B , 18C , 18D , 18E , 18F
• Municipio XIV: 19A , 19B Primavalle, 19C , 19D , 19E Trionfale, 19F , 19G , 19H
• Municipio XV: 20A Tor di Quinto, 20B , 20C , 20D  [it], 20E , 20F , 20G , 20H La Storta, 20I , 20L Prima Porta, 20M Labaro, 20N Cesano, 20O , 20X Foro Italico

Historical subdivisions of Rome[]

Map of the subdivisions of Rome:

  rioni (districts)

  quartieri (neighborhoods)

  suburbi (suburbs)

  zone dell'Agro romano (areas of Agro romano)

Rome is also divided into 116 non-administrative units, called comprensori toponomastici (toponymic districts), which are organized into four groups:

• 22 rioni located in the historic centre of the city, mostly within the Aurelian Walls, except for Prati and Borgo;
• 35 quartieri surrounding the historic centre of Rome outside the Aurelian Walls;
• 6 suburbi located in the suburban area of the city;
• 53 zone in the countryside of the comune.

List of historic Rioni in Rome's centre[]

The rioni originate from the Regiones of ancient Rome, which evolved in the Middle Ages into the medieval rioni.^[3] In the Renaissance, under Pope Sixtus V, they reached again the number of fourteen, and their boundaries were finally defined under Pope Benedict XIV in 1743.

A new subdivision of the city under Napoleon was ephemeral, and there were no sensible changes in the organisation of the city until 1870 when Rome became the capital of Italy. The needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the Aurelian Walls. In 1874 a fifteenth rione, Esquilino, was created on the newly urbanised zone of Monti. At the beginning of the 20th century other rioni where created (the last one was Prati – the only one outside the Walls of Pope Urban VIII – in 1921). Afterward, for the new administrative subdivisions of the city the name "quartiere" was used. Today all the rioni are part of the first Municipio, which therefore coincides completely with the historical city (Centro Storico).^{[citation needed]}

A map of Rome's historic center with its Rioni.

List of Rome's quartieri[]

Quarters of Rome

List of Rome's suburbi[]

There are currently 6 suburbi with a discontinuous numbering, since some of the original suburbs were established as quartieri in 1961, following to the urban development of the city.

• S. I
• S. VII
• S. VIII
• S. IX
• S. X
• S. XI

References[]

External links[]

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