Rome plazas and Rome squares

Square Barberini

* On horseback between the necks Quirinale and him You Sallustiani, takes the name from the Palace Barberini that it is appeared, even if the entrance of the palace, finished to build in 1625 on commission of the cardinal Francesco Barberini, is place in Road of Four Fountains.

Square Mouth of the Truth

* Mail in the ancient zone of the Forum Boario, actual before the of the tiber island, takes the name from the Mouth of the Truth, today placed in the portico of the church of Holy Maria in Cosmedin.

Square of the Capitol

* The trapezoid Square of the Capitol on the homonymous necks, was planned in the present shape from Michelangelo, included the star, that is drawn on the floor with the white marble. To the center of the square it is found a copy of the statue equestre of the emperor I Mark Aurelio: the original is found in the new Roman Garden built to the inside of the Museums Capitolini.

I live it says' flowers

* TO Field it says' flowers, not distant from Square Farnese, is accommodated from 1869 a food market of son-in-laws. In priority it had accommodated representations, races of horses and capital executions. Besides Field says' Flowers is the sole large square of Rome without churches.

Square Column

* With its colossale Column of the emperor I Mark Aurelio, concentrates the Rome political. Palace Chigi is the seat of the Presidency of the Advice of the Ministers, and immediately near it is found Palace Montecitorio, the seat of the Room of the Deputies.

Square Farnese

* Before the homonymous palace of the family Farnese, built from Sangallo and Michelangelo, attracts for its clear sobriety. Two large baths marble provenienti from the Baths of Caracalla constitute the base for two fountains built in the square.

Square of the Minerva

* Before the Holy church Maria above Minerva accommodates a small preziosità: the elefantino of Bernini with the obelisk on the back, the Rookie of the Minerva.

Square Navona

* It is found in the place where the emperor Domitian had make build a stadium for the races of the carts. The shape of the square corresponds to the shape extended some stadium. Three baroque fountains decorate the square: the Fountain of Four Rivers of Bernini to the center and the Fountain of the Dark one and the Fountain of the Neptune near the end.

Square of the People

* Immediately behind the Wall Aureliane is gone, lasciandola to political left, before Holy Maria of the People and enters in the oval one of Square of the People. To the center of the square it is raised one of the largest obelisks of Rome , surrounded by fountains and from lions that emit water.

Square of the Quirinale

* The seat of the President of the Republic is found to the Quirinale. From the Square of the Quirinale, a Horse Mountain of square goddess time, that it is before found the Palace of the Quirinale is had a fine panorama on the roofs of Rome . To the center of the square an obelisk with the statues of Castore and Polluce.

Square of the esedra or Square of the Republic

* The semicircular colonnato of Square of the Republica the Shape of the baths of Diocleziano corresponds to, that found themselves here. The Fountain of the Naiads that it is found here was built in 1885. The Holy church Maria of the Angels was built from Michelangelo in the ruins of the baths.

Square of the Round one

* It is the impressive space before the Pantheon, and takes the name from the nickname given from the Romen to the monument (the Ritonna). On the square it is found a fountain with one of the Obelisks of Rome.

Square San Pietro

* It is an of the most well-known squares of the world, and it is before situated the Basilica of San Pietro, cherishes some spirit of the first Pope, the apostle and martyr Pietro, daily place of pilgrimage for thousands of faithful provenienti from all of the world. It is found in the Town of the Vatican, the town-been in which has seat the Pontifical State, in the heart of the historical center of Rome, on the bank eastern of the Tiber.

Square of Spain

* To The foots of the Staircase of Trinità of the Mountains it takes the name from the embassy of Spain I press the Holy Seat that it is found here. In the square it is found the Fountain of the Boat.

I put out of Tower Argentina

* Situated in the ancient zone of Field Marzio that accommodates four Roman templi risalenti to the age of the Republic.

Square Venice

* It is found between Road of the Imperial Forums and Road of the Course, all goals obliged of a visit in the capital. In this square was raised to the beginnings of the twentieth century the Victorian one, monument to Vittorio Emanuele TWO, often wrongly identified with the altar of the Homeland.

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monument to Vittorio Emanuele TWO