Piazza della Repubblica (Rome)
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The Piazza della Repubblica ( German " Platz der Republik " ) is a semicircular square in Rome near the Roma Termini train station . The former name of the square was Piazza dell'Esedra, it is still very common today. It comes from the exedra of the Diocletian's baths , which still determine the shape of the square today. The monumental semicircular buildings on the edge of the square, which were built from 1887 to 1898 according to plans by Gaetano Koch , trace this exedra to this day (one is the Hotel Exedra today, part of the Boscolo Hotels group ). The Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri also stands on part of the ancient thermal baths, Michelangelo used the tepidarium as one of the wings of his plan in the form of a Greek cross. The church of San Bernardo alle Terme was also created from part of the thermal baths.
In the middle of the square is the once hotly contested Naiad fountain .
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 , p. 288.
- Anton Henze, Art Guide Rome , Philipp Reclam GmbH, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-010402-5 , p. 117
Individual evidence
- ↑ Piazza della Repubblica (già Piazza dell'Esedra). Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
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Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 10 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 46 ″ E