It was built from bricks, and featured a walkable passage on the inner side that fully protected soldiers on patrol. It was 11 feet thick and 26 feet high, with a square tower every 97 feet. The wall ran for a distance of 12 miles, surrounding an area of 5.3 square miles. The wall enclosed all seven hills of Rome plus the Campus Martius and the Trastevere district across the Tiber River. By then, Rome had expanded much beyond its old Servian Wall, and although it had stood essentially unfortified for centuries because it was protected by its powerful armies, incursions by Germanic barbarians and Vandals (in 270 AD) and internal revolts forced Rome to rethink its defenses and construct the new, larger and taller wall. The Aurelian Wall (red wall on the map below) was a city wall built around Rome between 271 AD and 275 AD by Emperor Aurelius to replace the then-insufficient Servian Wall (black wall on the map below). Viewable at any time (except as noted below) A Tourist in Rome - Aurelian Wall and Gates Location:
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