Piazza Venezia
The Piazza Venezia is a place in the center of Rome . It is named after the adjacent Palazzo Venezia .
The square is at the foot of the Capitol and near the Roman Forum .
history
Even in the time of the Roman Republic , the square was an important traffic junction, as the Via Flaminia met the Porta Fontinalis in the Servian Wall here . In the 15th century the Venetian Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II , had his palace, the Palazzo Barbo, built on the west side of the square. The Venetian embassy to the Holy See had its seat there from 1567 to 1797 , hence the name of the palace today, Palazzo Venezia. In 1660, to the north, the Palazzo Misciatelli, known today as Palazzo Bonaparte , was built, as Laetitia Ramolino, the mother of Napoléon Bonaparte, had her retirement home here.
The square got its current shape when the Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II was built on its south side from 1885 , which still dominates the piazza today. For this purpose, an entire district, including the monastery of Santa Maria in Aracoeli , was demolished. From 1911 the Assicurazioni Generali di Venezia was built on the east side of the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali , which took up the shape and dimensions of the Palazzo Venezia and thus created a symmetry .
During the fascist era , the Palazzo Venezia was Mussolini's seat of government . From his balcony the dictator made numerous speeches to the people in the square.
traffic
The Piazza Venezia is an important traffic junction. To the north the Via del Corso joins the course of the ancient Via Flaminia, which today is largely traffic-calmed. To the west, Via del Plebiscito leads towards St. Peter's Square and to the east, Via Cesare Battisti climbs up to the Quirinal . Via del Teatro Marcello leads south to the Tiber and Via dei Fori Imperiali leads south-east to the Colosseum . The latter two were laid out as boulevards under the Mussolini government.
Until 2006, the traffic was controlled by a traffic policeman on a pedestal (the so-called pedana ) and formed the inspiration for numerous scenes in films and commercials. On March 16, 2009, this type of traffic control was reintroduced by a police officer.
Numerous bus routes intersect in Piazza Venezia. Preparatory work for the construction of line C of the Roman subway , which is to have a station in Piazza Venezia, has been underway since 2006 .
literature
- Heinz-Joachim Fischer : Rome. Two and a half millennia of history, art and culture of the Eternal City. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5607-2 , pp. 236-237.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filippo Coarelli, Guida Archeologica di Roma, Mondadori Editore SpA, Milan 2006 (5th edition) ISBN 88-04-48002-5 , p. 21
- ^ Corriere Romano on March 16, 2009
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 47 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 57" E