"The First Apartment Blocks"
In what is clearly distinct from the domus, the upper-class private residence, the insula were apartment blocks housing hundreds of families. Alongside the steps of Aracoeli are the remains of insula built about 2000 years ago providing homes for poorer people, who lived in difficult conditions. Just the first six floors of the construction can be seen. It is believed to have been higher, with space for perhaps 400 people. The top three floors were partly used in the Middle Ages for the construction of a church. In the 1940s, a renovation operation uncovered three lower floors. When the city’s growing population necessitated housing and the paucity of land only added to this urgency, high-rise apartment blocks became commonplace in Imperial Rome.
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"The First Apartment Blocks"
In what is clearly distinct from the domus, the upper-class private residence, the insula were apartment blocks housing hundreds of families. Alongside the steps of Aracoeli are the remains of insula built about 2000 years ago providing homes for poorer people, who lived in difficult conditions. Just the first six floors of the construction can be seen. It is believed to have been higher, with space for perhaps 400 people. The top three floors were partly used in the Middle Ages for the construction of a church. In the 1940s, a renovation operation uncovered three lower floors. When the city’s growing population necessitated housing and the paucity of land only added to this urgency, high-rise apartment blocks became commonplace in Imperial Rome.
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