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Ponte di Nona { 44 images } Created 23 Sep 2013

Ponte di Nona is a suburb of Rome. Ponte di Nona is a work on the daily life of the middle class, suffering for the ongoing crisis, in a new suburbs.
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  • Angela Digaetano on his way home after two hours of public transport. His bike was broken and so she has to go by public transport.
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  • Uriel Cozzolino, 16 years old, overlooking the balcony of his house. Uriel wakes up shortly before 6 am to go to school, by public transport it takes one hour and a half.
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  • Phone call in suburb.
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  • Roads still not used to the traffic that separates the neighborhood of Ponte di Nona from Monte degli Abeti, neighboring district.
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  • Sales office apartments. Though it is more than ten years that Ponte di Nona was born , still continue the construction of buildings.
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  • The Parish of Beata Madre Teresa di Calcutta (Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata) of Nuova Ponte di Nona.
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  • Uriel Cozzolino, 16 years old, plays the lottery. So he was able to buy the mobile phone.
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  • Francesco Caltagirone is one of the largest homebuilders Italians. The consortium that built the Ponte di Nona neighborhood is largely in his hands, his sons and relatives. Francesco Caltagirone street is one of the biggest streets in the neighborhood.
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  • The finishing of the district have not yet been completed. Some roundabouts are still incomplete.
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  • Federico Luzi and his wife Monica Luigini after dropping two of the four children to school.
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  • Boys playing in the park of Ponte di Nona. The park is the only public venue in the neighborhood.
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  • Boys playing in the park of Ponte di Nona. The park is the only public venue in the neighborhood.
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  • Giovanni is a Romanian seasonal worker. He works at Luna Park Park of Ponte di Nona.
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  • A runner in the park of Ponte di Nona. The park is the only public venue in the neighborhood.
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  • Riccardo Luminaria, grew up in San Giovanni (a central district of Rome), where he lived with his wife and his parents. He and his wife when they decided to start a family have seen that a house in San Giovanni would have been very small, plus parking had become a real problem. To Richard has happened that he had shot for three hours to find parking. They are happy now, they have no parking problems and they have a house-sized unthinkable if they were in the downtown.
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  • Bus stop 075 which leads to Rebibbia, where there is the metro to the city center. The trip takes an hour or so.
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  • Boys playing table football in the Roma Est shopping center. The center is the only gathering place for the neighborhood, the Saturday and Sunday becomes crowd of people. The shopping center East Rome has been for a short period after its creation, one of the largest in Europe. On Saturday and Sunday, or when it rains, to leave the shopping center it takes even more than an hour.
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  • Ponte di Nona by night.
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  • Checkpoint of the carabinieri in Ponte di Nona.
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  • The course of volleyball. It is housed in one of three schools of the district.
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  • Roberto Battistoni lives in Ponte di Nona. He loves riding a motorbike, but now his wife is expecting a second child and he uses the bike less and less.
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  • Paolo Cozzolino, musician, lives in Ponte di Nona since 2005. First ever lived in Rome East, but within the GRA (Grande Raccordo Aanulare - the  great ring road). The decision to buy a home at an affordable price led him to Ponte di Nona.
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  • Angela Digaetano, wife of Paolo Cozzolino, reading a newspaper in the bedroom. Any other home I will take, I always want a nice view, here I am overlooking wheat fields and grazing sheep.
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  • The Parish of Beata Madre Teresa di Calcutta (Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata) of Nuova Ponte di Nona.
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  • The oratory of Parish of Beata Madre Teresa di Calcutta (Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata) of Nuova Ponte di Nona.
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  • Sunset in the neighborhood.
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  • Pirina Franco, president of AVS, Security Volunteer Association, during a tour of the night patrol. The AVS is an association of private citizens who, tired of the thefts in the neighborhood, has come together to help the police to prevent crime in the neighborhood.
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  • The playground of Ponte di Nona.
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  • The railway station of Lunghezza. Ponte di Nona is still waiting for its own station.
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  • The railway station of Lunghezza. Ponte di Nona is still waiting for its own station.
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  • The gully that divides Ponte di Nona from Colle deli Abeti.
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  • The meeting with the schools in the area (Ponte di Nona and neighboring districts) and alderman (for the Budget, School and Institutional Relations) dr. Baldassarri, for some clarification in relation to entries.<br />
The most felt emergency in the district is the lack of schools. In the school year 2010/11 there were about 800 students, for the 2012/13 just under 1200. There is not any high school, there aren't kindergartens and the primary schools are only three. They must also serve the surrounding neighborhoods that were built by other criteria and without any school at all. The situation is critical and might put residents of a neighborhood against the inhabitants of another one.
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  • Demonstration for the lack of schools.<br />
The most felt emergency in the district is the lack of schools. In the school year 2010/11 there were about 800 students, for the 2012/13 just under 1200. There is not any high school, there aren't kindergartens and the primary schools are only three. They must also serve the surrounding neighborhoods that were built by other criteria and without any school at all. The situation is critical and might put residents of a neighborhood against the inhabitants of another one.
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  • A group of visitors to the archaeological site of Gabii. At the center Cristina Molari (with maps) that in these excavations is serving. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Gabii is located at the twelfth mile of the Via Prenestina old, a few miles away from Ponte di Nona, which owes its name to the bridge that is still in operation at the ninth mile of the same street.<br />
The city of Gabii, originally called Cab, located on the southern edge of the crater of Castiglione, an eccentric body of the complex of the Alban Hills occupied by a volcanic lake known as Lake Castiglione until the end of the nineteenth century, when it was dried up.
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  • The elections for the Governing Committee held at the park for the district of Ponte di Nona. Cohesion among the inhabitants is always deeply felt. Over the years have come and gone several committees to defend the rights of citizens. Unlike other reality peripherals, today, citizens are joining forces to get their rights.
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  • The elections for the Governing Committee held at the park for the district of Ponte di Nona. Cohesion among the inhabitants is always deeply felt. Over the years have come and gone several committees to defend the rights of citizens. Unlike other reality peripherals, today, citizens are joining forces to get their rights. Standing in the center, one of the elect, Claudio Di Leo. Bottom right, the current chairman of the committee Ponte di Nona, Bruno Foresti.
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  • The wheat fields around the neighborhood Ponte di Nona
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  • Two Romanian shepherds, Nokolai and Giovanni, with the sheep in the meadows of the neighborhood. The district Ponte di Nona is located in the middle of farmland and often the shepherds who live nearby lead the animals in the many lawns in the neighborhood. Nikolai was killed by a car at night in March of 2013. The driver ran away without paying for help, he would have saved him.
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  • The father of Cristian with his radio. Cristian, the head of household of gypsies who live in a house built among the trees (ten years now) in one of the many areas that are still wild of the district.
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  • Cristian and his twins Samuel and Daniel. The family of gypsies lives in a house built among the trees (ten years now) in one of the many areas that are still wild in the district.
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  • Letizia at home. Letizia is a Brazilian transsexual. She lived for two years in Ponte di Nona and she likes it because no one bothers her.
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  • Maila, 22 years old, is a squatter. Maila as she enters the building illegally occupied.
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  • A notice of sale. The problems of transport are often the cause of the sale of the apartments.
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