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APARTMENTS IN ROME SPANISH STEPS AREA:
In the Piazza at the base is
the Early Baroque
fountain called
La Fontana della Barcaccia
("Fountain of the Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and
often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more
famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently
said to have collaborated on the decoration. The
elder Bernini had been the pope's architect for the
Acqua Vergine, since 1623. According to an unlikely
legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed
after he had been impressed by a boat brought here
by a flood of the Tiber river.
In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one
begins to climb the steps, is the house where
English poet
John Keats lived and died in
1821; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory,
full of memorabilia of the English Romantic
generation. On the same right side stands the 15th
century former cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari's
palace, now Ferrari di Valbona, a building altered
in 1936 to designs by Marcello Piacentini, the main
city planner during Fascism, with modern terraces
perfectly in harmony with the surrounding baroque
context.
At the top the Viale ramps up the Pincio
which is the
Pincian Hill, omitted, like
the Janiculum,
from the classic Seven hills of Rome. From the
top of the steps the Villa Medici can also be easily
reached.
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IN ROME TREVI FOUNTAIN AREA:
The Trevi Fountain
at the juncture of three roads (tre vie)
marks the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian:
Acqua Vergine),
one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water
to Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a
virgin, Roman technicians located a source of
pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This
scene is presented on the present fountain's
facade). However, the eventual indirect route of
the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14
miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water
into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for
more than four hundred years. The "coup de grace"
for the urban life of late classical Rome came
when the Goth besiegers broke the aqueducts.
Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water
from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which
was also used as a sewer.
The Roman custom
of building a handsome fountain at the endpoint
of an aqueduct that brought water to Rome was
revived in the 15th century, with the
Renaissance. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V finished
mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a
simple basin, designed by the humanist architect
Leon Battista Alberti, to herald the water's
arrival.
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IN ROME PIAZZA NAVONA AREA:
Piazza Navona
is a city square in Rome. The piazza follows the
plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century
Stadium of Domitian 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
church of Sant'Agnese in Agone; and by Pietro da
Cortona, who painted the gallery in the Pamphilj
palace.
The traditional
market was moved in 1869 to Campo de' Fiori, but
the square has also a traditional role in
housing theatrical and costume shows, horse
races, buffalo jousts. Since 1652, on every
August's Sunday and Saturday, the square was
turned into a lake to celebrate the Pamphilj
family itself: youngsters and noble cabs played
running through the square while a band played
music. This feast was suppressed in 1866.
Piazza Navona
contains two additional fountains sculpted by
Giacomo della Porta — the Fontana di Nettuno
(1574), located at the northern area of Piazza
Navona, and the Fontana del Moro (1576),
located at the southern area of the piazza.
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IN ROME COLOSSEUM AREA:
The Colosseum
or Coliseum, originally the Flavian
Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum
Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or
Colosseo), is a giant amphitheatre in the
centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Originally
capable of seating around 50,000 spectators, it
was used for gladiatorial contests and public
spectacles. It was built on a site just east of
the Roman Forum, with construction starting
between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian.
The amphitheatre, the largest ever built in the
Roman Empire, was completed in 80 AD under Titus,
with further modifications being made during
Domitian's reign
The Colosseum
remained in use for nearly 500 years with the
last recorded games being held there as late as
the 6th century — well after the traditional
date of the fall of Rome in 476. As well as the
traditional gladiatorial games, many other
public spectacles were held there, such as mock
sea battles, animal hunts, executions,
re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas
based on Classical mythology. The building
eventually ceased to be used for entertainment
in the early medieval era. It was later reused
for such varied purposes as housing, workshops,
quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a
quarry and a Christian shrine.
Although it is
now in a severely ruined condition due to damage
caused by earthquakes and stone-robbers, the
Colosseum has long been seen as an iconic symbol
of Imperial Rome and is one of the finest
surviving examples of Roman architecture. It is
one of modern Rome's most popular tourist
attractions and still has close connections with
the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope leads a
torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession to the
amphitheatre each Good Friday.
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