Rione Alto

The entrepreneur and engineer Corrado Ferlaino talked about the construction of the neighborhood in an interview:[1] Roma (in Italian), Comprai tutti i suoli ai Colli Aminei e al Rione Alto.

[...] Per la lottizzazione del Rione Alto ero in società al 50% con Enrico Verga, figlio di un medico e professore universitario molto importante.

The two main streets of the district, via Jannelli and via San Giacomo dei Capri, have remained the same in length, width and route compared to their conditions in the past centuries, when they were only used for goats and agricultural carts.

Added to this is the lack of real social gathering centers (squares, gardens) due to the excesses of speculative construction, so much so that the subsequent construction of the Rione Alto station of Line 1 of the underground, as there are no further spaces useful for the purpose, has resulted in a significant narrowing of the roadway (necessarily occupied by the relative entrances and descents, as well as by the station well) of Via Pasquale del Torto and part of via Giulio Palermo, which also entailed substantial variations to the viability of the entire ward with the establishment of one-way streets in various streets.

Other important places are the small gardens on the first stretch of via Domenico Fontana, dedicated to the neapolitan actress Tina Pica, who died in solitude and almost forgotten in the house of one of her nephews located in nearby via Bernardo Cavallino in 1968.