The city of Rome, Italy, is divided into first-level administrative subdivisions.
There are 15 municipi (SG: municipio) in the city; each municipio is governed by a president and a council who are elected directly by its residents every five years. The municipi collectively comprise the comune of Rome, which is itself one of the constituent parts of the wider Metropolitan City of Rome Capital.
History
On 31 March 1966, for administrative purposes and to increase decentralization, the territory of the comune of Rome was divided into 12 administrative areas, called circoscrizioni (singular: circoscrizione). On 11 February 1972 those areas were increased to 20.
On 6 March 1992, after the referendum that ratified the separation of the then Circoscrizione XIV from Rome and the birth of the new independent comune of Fiumicino, the number of administrative areas of Rome decreased to 19.
On 19 January 2001, circoscrizioni which were renamed municipi and the direct election of a President to head each municipio was established.[1]
On 11 March 2013, Rome City Council decided to merge some of the municipi, reducing their number to 15 and giving them a new numeration.[2]
The comune of Rome is also composed of 155 urban zones (zone urbanistiche), conceived as a subdivision of the municipi, which were established in 1977 for statistical and city planning purposes on the basis of urban homogeneity criteria. Boundaries were drafted taking account of the discontinuities in Rome's urban pattern
The urban zones are identified by an alphanumeric code that consists of a letter and of the number of the municipio where the zone was located: indeed, the municipi were reduced from 20 to 15 in 2013, but the alphanumeric codes were not revised.
Municipio IV: 5A Casal Bertone, 5B Casal Bruciato, 5C Tiburtino Nord, 5D Tiburtino Sud, 5E San Basilio, 5F Tor Cervara, 5G Pietralata, 5H Casal de' Pazzi, 5I Sant'Alessandro, 5L Settecamini
Municipio V: 6A Torpignattara, 6B Casilino, 6C Quadraro, 6D Gordiani, 7A Centocelle, 7B Alessandrina, 7C Tor Sapienza, 7D La Rustica, 7E Tor Tre Teste, 7F Casetta Mistica, 7G Centro Direzionale Centocelle, 7H Omo
Municipio VI: 8A Torrespaccata, 8B Torre Maura, 8C Giardinetti-Tor Vergata, 8D Acqua Vergine, 8E Lunghezza, 8F Torre Angela, 8G Borghesiana, 8H San Vittorino
Municipio VII: 9A Tuscolano Nord, 9B Tuscolano Sud, 9C Tor Fiscale, 9D Appio, 9E Latino, 10A Don Bosco, 10B Appio-Claudio, 10C Quarto Miglio, 10D Pignatelli, 10E Lucrezia Romana, 10F Osteria del Curato, 10G Romanina, 10H Gregna, 10I Barcaccia, 10L Morena, 10X Ciampino
Municipio IX: 12A Eur, 12B Villaggio Giuliano, 12C Torrino, 12D Laurentino, 12E Cecchignola, 12F Mezzocammino, 12G Spinaceto, 12H Vallerano-Castel di Leva, 12I Decima, 12L Porta Medaglia, 12M Castel Romano, 12N Santa Palomba, 12X Tor di Valle
Municipio XIII: 18A Aurelio Sud, 18B Val Cannuta, 18C Fogaccia, 18D Aurelio Nord, 18E Casalotti di Boccea, 18F Boccea
Municipio XIV: 19A Medaglie d'Oro, 19B Primavalle, 19C Ottavia, 19D Santa Maria della Pietà, 19E Trionfale, 19F Pineto, 19G Castelluccia, 19H Santa Maria di Galeria
A new subdivision of the city under Napoleon was ephemeral, and there were no sensible changes in the organisation of the city until 1870 when Rome became the capital of Italy. The needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the Aurelian Walls. In 1874 a fifteenth rione, Esquilino, was created on the newly urbanised zone of Monti. At the beginning of the 20th century other rioni where created (the last one was Prati – the only one outside the Walls of Pope Urban VIII – in 1921). Afterward, for the new administrative subdivisions of the city the name "quartiere" was used. Today all the rioni are part of the first Municipio, which therefore coincides completely with the historical city (Centro Storico).[citation needed]
There are currently 6 suburbi with a discontinuous numbering, since some of the original suburbs were established as quartieri in 1961, following to the urban development of the city.
