Regio I Porta Capena
The Regio I Porta Capena is the first regio of imperial Rome, under Augustus's administrative reform. Regio I took its name from the Porta Capena ("Gate to Capua"), a gate of the Servian Walls, through which the Appian Way entered the city prior to the construction of the Aurelian Walls. Geographic extent and important features. Bordered to the north by the Via Appia as it passed between the Palatine Hill and the Caelian Hill, Regio I stretched through the ancient Capena gate either to at least the boundary of the future Aurelian wall, and possibly  originally beyond the Porta Appia. Including areas that were traversed by the Via Appia and the Via Latina, the boundary eventually turned back towards the ancient city until it returned back to the Caelian Hill. Prior to the construction of the Aurelian wall, it is unclear how far along the Via Appia Regio I continued. A measurement taken at the end of the 4th century recorded that the perimeter of the region was 12,219 Roman feet (approximately 3.61km). Within this region lay a spring and a grove once sacred to the nymph Egeria, a divine consort and counsellor of  Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. A brook called the Almo was nearby; this was where annually, on 27 March, the sacred black stone of the Magna Mater was brought from her temple on the Palatine Hill to where the brook crossed the via Appia south of the Porta Capena, for the ceremony of "lavatio" (washing). Also present was the oldest temple to Mars in Rome, "Templum Martis in Clivo". Built near the first miliarium of the Via Appia, it was where, in Republican times, the legions gathered prior to their allotted campaign, and where they returned to lay  down their arms before re-entering the city. Along with the Temple of Mars, this region also had a temple dedicated to Minerva and one to the Tempestas. Between the Servian and Aurelian Walls stood three Triumphal arches that spanned the via Appia: the Arch of Drusus, the Arch of Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius (for the Parthian triumph of 166 CE) and the Arch of Trajan. None of these three arches are extant, and the so-called Arch of Drusus that is still standing in the former Regio I is most likely part of the "Aqua Antoniniana". Regio I  also included the Baths of Commodus and the "Septizodium". Finally, it also contained the "Mutatorium Caesaris". This was an area reserved for the Imperial family where their private transport could be housed and held for use whenever they returned to the capital from the Via Appia. At the turn of the 5th century, the Regio contained ten "aediculae" (shrines), 120 "domūs" (patrician houses), 26 "horrea" (warehouses), 86 "balneae" (bath houses) and 87 "loci" (fountains). If the region extended beyond the Aurelian Wall, the region will also have included the Circus of Maxentius and the Tomb of Caecilia Metella. Subdivisions. At  the turn of the 5th century, the Regio was divided into ten "vici" (districts) and 3,250 "insulae" (blocks). It had two curators and was served by 48 Roman magistrates.