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Monti is the name of the Rione I of Rome and it literally means ''mountains'' in Italian. The name comes from the fact that the Esquiline and the Viminal Hill s, part of the Quirinal and of the Caelian Hill s belong to that. On its logo there are three green mountains with three tops on a silver background. Nowadays Esquilino , Castro Pretorio and Celio do not belong to that anymore, but it kept the name. During the ancient Rome there was a lot of people: in Monti there was the Forum Romanum and the so called ''Subura'' (meaning ''suburbs'' in Latin): this was the place poor people lived, full of disreputable locals and brothels. In the , a lower level part or used to drink the water from the river Tiber , that was drinkable. From the Middle ages to the beginning of the 1800 s, the rione remained an area full of vineyards and market gardens. Monti was not very populated because of the lack of water and because it was quite far from the Vatican , that was the center of the culture. The area did not become abandoned thanks to the church of San Giovanni In Laterano and the huge number of pilgrims coming continuously. Still in the Middle ages the inhabitants of Monti, called ''monticiani'', developed a strong identity: in fact their Roman language was different from the other rioni. Their main enemies were the people from the other rione with a strong identity, Trastevere , and they often used to fight one against the other. Then, the increase of urbanization at the end of the 1800 (Rome had just became the capital of Italy) and the great changes of the Fascist period changed completely the appearance of the rione. In particular, between 1924 and 1936 a big part of the rione, made of small streets and popular houses, was destroyed to built Via Dei Fori Imperiali (the street artifically dividing the Roman Forum and most of the Imperial Forums ) and the archaeological buildings of the forum Romanum were dug out from under the ground. Thanks to its position, Monti is nowadays full of archaeological buildings such as:
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