Suburra

Subura (also Suburra ) was in ancient times the name of a district in Rome, which was known as a residential area of the poor and as a red light district or infamous. But Gaius Julius Caesar lived there temporarily. The living conditions in the Subura were partly very cramped, as from numerous mentions, for example, in Juvenal and Martial apparent. After Subura one of the four city tribes was named.

The Subura belonged in the Augustan division in the IV region of the city. It lay between the hills Quirinal, Cispius, Viminal and the Esquiline ( on today's map about halfway between Termini Station and the Colosseum ). By Subura was the clivus Suburanus (about today's Via in Selci accordingly) as a road connecting the Argiletum and Porta Esquilina in the Servian walls.

The inhabitants of the Subura delivered every year on October 15, a cultic competition with residents of the Via Sacra, who was known as " October Horse" ( equus October ).