The power of an ancient sign: the Servian walls at Termini station

A close relationship lies between the trace of the ancient Servian Walls of Rome and the conformation of the modern city, in particular the complex case-study of Termini Train Station project. "e Servian walls, even if largely destroyed, remain a clearly legible sign in the city’s structure, where their presence-absence has both in#uenced the urban form over the centuries and represented an eternal symbol of the past. In the urban morphology, the theme of the fragment and the trace as a ‘latent structure’ that designs the city plays a key role.