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Servian Wall

Mura serviane

The Servian Wall is an early Republican defensive circuit built of large squared tuff blocks that once enclosed Rome. Constructed and repaired in the 4th century BC, surviving stretches and rebuilt gates mark its former line across several of Rome's hills.

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First raised

350 BC

Its prime

378 BC

Today

Partial ruin

As it stood in 378 BC

What Servian Wall looked like in its prime.

A continuous, up-to-10-m-high curtain of pale yellow-beige Grotta Oscura tuff laid in horizontal courses of large squared blocks, roughly 50–60 cm high each, with visible mason's marks and occasional putlog or tie holes. Sections rise from a broad gravelly ditch (fossa) or against an inner earthen agger; the wall runs along hill slopes and folds with the terrain, sometimes pierced by simple road gates and later monumental arches. Parts are topped by soil and low vegetation.

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6 places to explore in 378 BC.

The record describes 6 distinct spots at Servian Wall, the full exterior approach. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach along the outer fossa at the Viminal (Termini) sectorClose-up of coursed tuff blocks and masons' marksInner side with agger and walkway behind the wallGate at the Esquiline (Porta Esquilina) looking through the openingNorthern approach near Porta Collina and the aggerAventine section incorporating an arch for engines

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