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San Lorenzo

The birth of the district of San Lorenzo goes back to the period between 1884 and 1888, at the time of the great building fever gripping Rome immediately after his proclamation as the capital of Italy, a time when social and hygienic no criteria guided the new development , was built as much as possible in order to obtain grants from institutions and banks.

There was never the intention of building a working class neighborhood, was the inevitable housing crisis erupted in the years between 1888 and 1890 to ensure that the many development initiatives were poorly completed or even abandoned in the state where they were.

So it was that those buildings, constructed as mentioned unsanitary and poorly completed, were used as housing for the poorest class of the capital.



The district name is derived from Porta San Lorenzo, the current Porta Tiburtina, near which the first houses were built outside of the plan.

And 'only in 1909 involved a new plan to try to bring order to the chaos of the city but the construction of the San Lorenzo district is already under way, the plan Sanjust does nothing but provide for its completion.

The urban structure since it already has in the form of elongated quadrilateral see how far the walls Labicana, cargo area, the Verano cemetery and the Via Tiburtina, and the configuration of the neighborhood and its location outside the city walls help to isolate it from the urban fabric, making it a real country within the city.

Urban and social isolation is accompanied by: the strong social characterization of its citizens are driven primarily by the conformation of the neighborhood business and profession, the fact that here we find the railway goods yard, the major water supply reservoirs, the deposit of sanitation, the tram depot and workshops for the construction of tram transport, the central railway station, the Verano cemetery and around the city building sites are growing, causes them to find housing in the district especially unskilled workers, bricklayers, rail, bus drivers, garbage collectors and artisans, among them especially those related to the activities cemetery.

Within the first few years of the century there are two buildings of modest size, Pászka-wsky (later Wurer beer) in 1902 and Ceres in 1905 mill and pasta factory employing a great number of workers.

E 'so that the neighborhood is set to become a compact core worker who embodies all the occupations of the Roman proletariat.

Alongside this core worker, especially in the early years of high immigration, it forms a component of dispersed, busy or underemployed who survive recourse to gimmicks and methods outside the law.

As to the origin of the diverse population of the district there is a strong immigration from Abruzzo (15%), the brand (12%), Umbria and Romagna (9%), Campania (7%), and Tuscany ( 4%), in practice is represented throughout central Italy.

We present descriptions of the neighborhood by contemporaries:

- Ing Talamo

"For those who do not know that this is the poorest area, the more infamous in the capital rose between 84 el'88 fever at the time of construction, it embodies all the mistakes first, the inauspicious period of unconsciousness he heard create, then all the disastrous economic consequences, hygienic and moral that would inevitably follow. (...) In those badly built houses, the growing, gnawing famine housing pushed more and more the greedy speculation



sublet to increase alarmingly agglomeration, promiscuity, and with them the filth, immorality and many times the crime. "

- M. Montessori

"When I came the first time in the streets of this neighborhood where good people go after death, I had the impression of being in a city where a great disaster had occurred

- D. Oran

"The same people live in the canyons and shake blocks of San Lorenzo"

The condition of life in San Lorenzo was certainly degrading in recent years, alongside the large core proletarian worker and lived a band of people forced to live illegally from degradation, but in any case survived among major illnesses and difficulties of every kind between failures economic, hygienic and nell'analfabetismo.

E 'in this social context that is fertile ground for spreading anarchist thought, as a direct reaction to the generalized conditions of degradation.

This is an anarchism that if at first you give a real structure, is organized in neighborhood clubs, create leagues of resistance, printing papers, then take hold before the Progressive Socialist Party, lost ground as an organization truly but there's no doubt as substrate culture, as an ideal reference, as rebellion and instinctive way of life.

Even today it is not hard to find here and there, both in Sanlorenzini doc, as patrons of the district in a subtle array of anarchism.

The Second World War is another very hard time for S. Lorenzo.

The losses are very significant: some people have lost all their loved ones, all have suffered loss as a result of the bombing.

Occurs immediately a mass exodus of Sanlorenzini in other areas of Rome or the countries of origin, the district is almost empty and destroyed infrastructure.

Those who remain are serving another period of great poverty.

Reconstruction begins, will last several years, even today you can find in the neighborhood of the buildings damaged by bombing in 1943 have not yet been rebuilt.

The reconstruction phase is accompanied by a push of immigration from southern Italy, people who come to San Lorenzo to work for the railroad.

The problems that arise are typical of a process of immigration, the integration becomes more problematic in that it adds to the many already in the neighborhood in those years.

Again S. Lorenzo suddenly meet destitute, once the road is illegal in some ranks of the local population.

Even at this stage is valuable work done by the Church. The parishes and religious congregations provide health care and social assistance to families in need, alleviating suffering.

Since the late sixties the neighborhood begins to undergo a gradual process of "depersonalization".

These are the years of revolutionary youth, what was formerly a university elite universities is transformed into a mass, the position of San Lorenzo, next to the campus does the rest.

These were the years in which they are carrying out some public works of great importance for the neighborhood: the construction of buildings of Child Neuropsychiatry, via dei Reti and Via dei Piceno and East Bypass, which is built right in between the buildings Viale dello Scalo San Lorenzo, who became one of the major problems of the neighborhood for years to follow.

Year after year, increasingly, the district began to be filled up with students who have come from all over central Italy, just as the original population, especially young families, tend to leave the neighborhood in search of less popular neighborhoods.

San Lorenzo is populated more and more university students fuorisede and the original population remain almost exclusively the elderly.

The neighborhood still absorbs influx of students and indeed seems to welcome with pleasure the new inhabitants of the neighborhood.

Meet the spirit and culture of the university world with the simplicity and richness of human and social values of the local people, in a fruitful mutual exchange, San Lorenzo is increasingly a place of culture, away from doctrinal and theoretical frameworks that marries the ideals of freedom and brotherhood in the community Sanlorenzini always be both home and laboratory of many Roman artists here manage to get away from the rigidity of social patterns elsewhere more stringent.

The cultural transformation of the district is at present so significant as to deserve a reputation in San Lorenzo de Montmartre of Rome.

What's certain is that the passing years and the events, the spirit of the people who

San Lorenzo was built was never switched off, almost intertwined with the buildings and streets of the neighborhood, was able to renew itself apart from the generations that followed and the waves of replacement occurred during the social fabric of the community of the neighborhood.

Today more than ever, San Lorenzo and is the place of all: everyone is welcome and integrated with the rest of the community, with the only condition to feel part of the neighborhood, and today as a century ago.