page_title: Sant'Angelo, Rome
section_title: Sant'Angelo today
hierarchical_section_title: Sant'Angelo, Rome / History / Sant'Angelo today
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Via della Reginella from the Piazza Mattei in the Sant'Angelo riona of Rome, Iraly. Located in the Roman Ghetto.
context_page_description: Sant'Angelo is the 11th rione of Rome, Italy, located in Municipio I. Often written as rione XI - Sant'Angelo, it has a coat of arms with an angel on a red background, holding a palm branch in its left hand. In another version, the angel holds a sword in its right hand and a scale in its left.
  Sant'Angelo, the smallest of Rome's rioni, lies along the Tiber river east of Tiber Island. Rioni bordering this district, clockwise from north to south, include Regola, Sant'Eustachio, Pigna, Campitelli, and Ripa. Sant'Angelo's western border is the river.
  The rione's terrain is low and flat and, until recent times, particularly susceptible to flooding from the river.
  The historical significance of Sant'Angelo is mainly the result of the presence here of the Roman Ghetto.
context_section_description: At the dawn of the 21st century Sant'Angelo remains one of the most characteristic districts in the old Rome. While the northern part of the rione, with its web of narrow, lonely lanes which protect it from the traffic, keeps a mainly residential character, the southern part is always characterized by the strong Jewish presence. The roads around the Portico d'Ottavia keep the atmosphere of a village, and host several small shops (also run by Jews) and many Trattorie, which, with their fried artichokes and filet of stockfish, perpetuate the tradition of the Jewish Roman cooking.
  The presence of a strong Jewish community makes necessary a continuous – albeit discreet – presence of Police and Carabinieri, deployed above all near the Synagogue in order to prevent attacks.
  Sant'Angelo hosts also several cultural institutions, such as the Enciclopedia Italiana, the Discoteca Nazionale and the Centro di Studi Americani, which holds the most important library of Americana in Europe.
caption: Via dei Falegnami viewed from Piazza Mattei.
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