Testaccio neighborhood

Map of Testaccio in Rome

The Testaccio district is located on the other side of the Aventine Hill, south of central Rome, inside the walls of Aurelian and bordered by the Tiber to west, up to the Saint Paul Gate to east.
This former port district is nowadays a popular neighborhood with a village look. It attracts for its cultural and nocturnal activities, with its cultural centers, bars and clubs. Many students live and go out there, as well as a multicultural population.

Old slaughterhouses

Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice is in the center of the neighborhood, with its Victoria Theatre. Another emblematic place is the curious artificial hill of Mount Testaccio, around which many old taverns have been converted into modern clubs.

You can visit interesting places, including the cultural center of MACRO near the banks of Lungotevere, the old slaughterhouses restored and converted into exhibition spaces. The pyramid of Caius Cestius is a Roman mausoleum inspired by Egyptian monuments, located near the pretty Porte Saint-Paul and the curious Protestant and non-Catholic cemetery.

Historical overview
In this area was once the important trading port of the Emporium, active from the Roman period until the 19th century.
The curious Mount Testaccio is an artificial hill 36 meters high that was formed during antiquity as a dump to collect only the remains of jars. The name “testaccio”, or “monte dei cocci”, means mount of shards.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century the district was urbanized to accommodate the workers of the neighboring factories, the important slaughterhouse, the general markets and the Montemartini power plant. Popular neighborhood in the 1960s, like Pigneto, was associated with it a bad image.
Most of the factories have since been closed, including the Roma III University.

Hotels and accommodation in Testaccio

Our hotel and accommodation selections in and around Testaccio :

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