II/ The surroundings
M1: 2000
City relief
The contrast in today's Rioni Campitelli and Monti is clearly evident: Dense, urban tissue in the northeast (Monti), fragmented city blocks from bygone eras with topographical edges between Piazza Venezia (north-west corner), Palatine (south edge) and Colosseum (south-east corner). At this special point, the urban structure that has been typical of Rome since antiquity gives way to a wide, park-likelandscape
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