Санта-Прасседе
Following to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Rome began to depopulate, and the area of the "rione" was among the first boroughs to be abandoned, being peripheral, unsafe and lacking of water. In the following centuries, little hamlets arose only around some major churches, such as the basilicas of Santa Prassede, Santa Pudenziana and Santa Maria Maggiore, thanks to their convents.