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Rome Public Squares
Navona Square
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Piazza Navona is a square in Rome. The piazza follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century Stadium of Domitian[1], where the Romans came to watch the agones ("games"): today's name stems from the corruption of the latter in in agone, then nagone and navona, which actually means "big ship" in Italian.
Defined as a square in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred here from the Campidoglio, Piazza Navona is now the pride of Baroque Rome. It has sculptural and architectural creations: by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1651) in the center; by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi, the ch ...
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Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitol)
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Thanks to its perfect stability and its harmonious proportions, the piazza del Campidoglio is one the most beautiful of the Renaissance piazzas.
It is situated on the Capitoline Hill, one of the seven hills on which Rome has been built. This hill was (and still is) the most important of the seven since it was the religious centre of ancient Rome before it became the seat of Rome's governement, from the Middle Ages until today.
The place changed dramatically in the 16th century when Paul III ordered Michelangelo to design a piazza on the Capitol. It took more than one century to complete the project. Three palaces border the place: the Palazzo dei Conservatori on your right handside, th ...
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Spanish Square
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The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Piazza di Spagna) is a set of stairs in Rome, ramping a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, with the church under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, Trinità dei Monti, above.
The monumental stairway, of 138 steps, was built with French diplomat Stefano Gueffier’s funds (20,000 scudi) in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish embassy to the Holy See, today still located in the piazza below, with the Trinità dei Monti church above.
The Spanish Steps were designed by Francesco De Sanctis after generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio ...
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