Tenuta di Tor Marancia

Human traces here run back to the Middle Palaeolithic, from about 70,000 to 35,000 BC, and the land has been farmed from Roman times to the present. A Roman house of the middle of the second century stood on the estate, the Villa dei Numisii, which belonged to Numisia Procula, named on a stamped lead pipe found here; quarrying to the right of the via Ardeatina has since destroyed it. The name Tor Marancia probably comes from Amaranthus, the freedman who managed the Numisii villa. The Torre Marancia itself stood on via delle Sette Chiese near the Domitilla catacombs and had gone by the Catasto Alessandrino of 1660. Basolate roads, funerary monuments and necropoleis line the Ardeatina and the Laurentina, one of them along Via di Grotta Perfetta near the Chiesa dell'Annunziatella. Residential building inside the Grande Raccordo Anulare was planned from the 1990s and blocked after public campaigns, and in 2002 the city council and giunta resolved to create the Parco di Tor Marancia as part of the Appia Antica park.