Balduina

Balduina is an urban area that belongs to the Municipio XIX of the comune of Rome, Italy, and to the fourteenth borough of the city, (Q.XIV, called Trionfale).

Finally, to east the neighbourhood is framed by the Via Trionfale itself, which runs down from Villa Stuart to Borghetto S. Lazzaro and is the boundary with Prati di Castello.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century "Balduina" and "Monte Mario" were used interchangeably and the neighbourhood was surrounded by open fields with no specific name.

A much bigger expansion started just after World War II with the typical Roman Palazzine, four or five-storey buildings, split in some apartments, nine as a base.

Balduina is divided into four districts: FL3: a regional and urban railway line linked to the major Trastevere and Ostiense train stations and to the Linea A metro with a junction at Valle Aurelia.

View of Rome from Via Trionfale, close to the Madonna del Rosario convent. On the left the arch that leads to Villa Mellini, now an observatory.
Oil painting by Salomon Corrodi, 1876
Balduina's north-eastern ridge seen from Prati di Castello's side of the Tiber.
Painting by Ettore Roesler Franz (Roma, 1845-1907)