Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi on
Wednesday called for sponsors to fund the upkeep and repair of
the city's ancient Aurelian Walls, parts of which have crumbled
in recent years.
She called the walls "an extremely important part of the
city, covering a lot of ground and delicate where projects are
concerned".
The Aurelian Walls are a line of city walls built between 271
AD and 275 AD in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman
Emperors Aurelian and Probus.
They superseded the earlier Servian Wall built during the 4th
century BC.
The walls enclosed all the seven hills of Rome plus the
Campus Martius and, on the left bank of the Tiber, the
Trastevere district.
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