{"id":6450,"date":"2026-01-09T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-a-servizio-del-fiume\/caserma-dei-vigili\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:31:12","slug":"caserma-dei-vigili","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-a-servizio-del-fiume\/caserma-dei-vigili\/","title":{"rendered":"Caserma dei Vigili"},"content":{"rendered":"

The imposing barracks reflect the importance attached in the city to the vigiles (fire brigade), who acted both as the town\u2019s police force and as fire fighters, safeguarding the warehouses and their contents.<\/p>\n

The barracks were built in the late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD when a permanent fire brigade was established at Ostia. However, the layout visible today dates from the transformations that affected the entire district in the Hadrianic period (first half of the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDetail of the mosaic from the vestibule of the imperial shrine (C) with a scene of bull sacrifice\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction drawing of the interior of the barracks (A) (I. Gismondi)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction drawing of the shrine to Fortuna in the latrine (D) (I. Gismondi)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tMosaic inscription on the floor of a room built against the east fa\u00e7ade of the barracks Proclus made it\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The imposing barracks reflect the importance attached in the city to the vigiles (fire brigade), who acted both as the town\u2019s police force and as fire fighters, safeguarding the warehouses and their contents. The barracks were built in the late 1st\u00a0century AD when a permanent fire brigade was established at Ostia. However, the layout visible…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6450\/revisions\/6451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}