Esquilino and Celio

Esquilino and Celio

In ancient times, the Suburra neighborhood, on the lower slopes of Esquiline Hill, was Rome's most notorious slum. A dark, warrenlike sector of multistory dwellings populated in part by gladiators from the nearby Colosseum, it lived by its own rules, or lack of them.

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