THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2020
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mon story told to explain
the origin of this peculiar
name lead us back to a
time when the area was fil-
led with coal mines and
factories, which would fill
the sky with dark smoke
and flames one could see
from pretty far away. It
look like hell was just
there, quite literally on
Saint Peter's footstep.
Last but not least, Saxa
R u b r a . We went fully
Latin here, because the
name doesn't even come
from Latin, it is in Latin.
S a x a r u b r a means "red
stones" and refers pretty
clearly to the reddish tufa
typical of the area. And it's
not a case that the borough
around it is called
Grottarossa, or red cave.
Infernetto as in "small
hell," and this is just what
it means. The most com-
Piazza Navona, in Rome, during a market day (Photo: Dreamstime)
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