Official Name: | Tor Cervara |
Settlement Type: | Zona of Rome |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Italy |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Lazio |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Rome |
Subdivision Type3: | Comune |
Subdivision Name3: | Rome |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 5.9600 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 13,975 |
Population Density Km2: | 2,344.80 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Tor Cervara is the 7th Italian: [[Zones of Rome|zona]] of the Italian capital Rome, identified by the initials Z. VII. It belongs to the Municipio IV and has 13,975 inhabitants (2016).[2] It is located in the east of the city, within the Grande Raccordo Anulare, and has an area of 5.9000 km2.
The name of the zone derives from an estate, the Tenuta di Cerbaro, that was used in the Middle Age as a hunting ground for deer (cervi in Latin and in Italian). The core of the estate was the Casale di Tor Cervara, that currently houses a private hospital.
The territory of Tor Cervara includes the urban zone 5F Tor Cervara and the eastern part of the urban zone 5D Tiburtino Sud (namely, the area called Colli Aniene).
Northward, Tor Cervara borders with Quartiere Ponte Mammolo (Q. XXIX), from which is separated by the stretch of the river Aniene between Via Tiburtina and Via di Tor Cervara, and by Via di Tor Cervara itself; and also borders with Quartiere San Basilio (Q. XXX), whose border is marked by the stretch of Via Tiburtina between Via di Tor Cervara and the GRA.
Eastward, Tor Cervara borders with Zona Settecamini (Z. VI), whose border is marked by the stretch of the GRA between Via Tiburtina and the river Aniene. To the east, Tor Cervara also shares a short border with Zona Acqua Vergine (Z. IX), which is outlined by the stretch of the GRA between the river Aniene and the A24.
Southward, the zone borders with Zona Tor Sapienza (Z. VIII), from which is separated by the stretch of the A24 between the GRA and Viale Palmiro Togliatti.
Westward, Tor Cervara borders with Quartiere Collatino (Q. XXII), from which is separated by the stretch of Viale Palmiro Togliatti between the A24 and Via Tiburtina.
Odonyms of the zone mainly refer to Italian politicians (in the area of Colli Aniene), artists and characters of Virgil's poems. In the northern part of the zone, near the border with Quartiere San Basilio, a few streets are named after towns of Lazio and local industrialists. Odonyms of the zone can be categorized as follows:
Currently used as a private hospital, named Castello della Quiete.
Subsidiary place of worship of the parish church of Santa Maria dell'Olivo.
Project by architect Vivina Rizzi. Parish church erected on 5 November 1975 according to the decree Neminem latet by cardinal vicar Ugo Poletti and dedicated to Bernadette Soubirous.
Several ancient tombs have been found in the necropolis, especially thirteen ground burials, a rectangular hypogeum and a circular hypogeum: the latter contains five recesses with six marble sarcophagi.