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[JM #2] Walking on the Walls Traditional Geocache

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Il Museo delle Mura


Il Museo è ospitato all’interno della Porta S. Sebastiano delle mura Aureliane ed offre ai visitatori un itinerario didattico che è stato realizzato nel 1990, ma la storia dell’utilizzo del monumento per usi più o meno consoni alla sua importanza ha inizio molto tempo prima.
Nel 1939, nonostante il parere contrario della Ripartizione Antichità e Belle
Arti, che si opponeva alla trasformazione in studio artistico del monumento, già
da anni aperto al pubblico, furono eseguiti alcuni lavori negli ambienti interni
della Porta per adattarli ad abitazione e studio privato del segretario del
partito fascista Ettore Muti, che vi rimase dal 1941 al ‘43. Furono ricostruiti
nuovi solai poiché le volte in muratura erano crollate, creati nuovi ambienti
con muri divisori, installate scale in legno e muratura, ed anche rifatte le
pavimentazioni in travertino e mattoni, con l’inserzione di due mosaici al primo
piano.


The Museum of the Walls


The Museum is situated inside the S. Sebastiano Gate of the Aurelian Walls
and offers visitors an educational visit which was created in 1990, although the
monument has been used in a more or less similar way since much earlier.
In 1939, despite the contrary inclination of the Office of the Distribution of
Antiquities and Fine Arts, which opposed the transformation of the monument,
which had for many years been open to the public, into an artistic studio,
various works were carried out in the rooms inside the gate, to adapt it for use
as a living place and private studio of Ettore Muti, the secretary of the
fascist party, who stayed there from 1941 to 1943. New attics were created as
the masonry vaults had collapsed, new rooms with dividing walls were created,
staircases were installed in wood and masonry, and the floors were reworked in
travertine and brick, with two mosaics inserted on the first floor.


 


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More info:
http://en.museodellemuraroma.it/museo/storia

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