Summary of multi-year work on the smallest urban area of historic Rome, a neighborhood popular and rebellious, created to accommodate the workers who built the Rome of end ‘800.

Six days after his bombing (19 July 1943) officially ended fascism.

Also known for the children’s home where Maria Montessori began her educational activities in 1907, as setting of the novel The Story of Elsa Morante, and attended by Pasolini and many others, it is still in the collective place of artists and artisans, intellectuals, student and politic protest.

Welcoming, open to immigration, tolerant of diversity, but it is the memory of the war and its cost in human lives the glue of its strong identity.

Identity that resists despite the very rapid changes, which have already made this recent work a store of memories.