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402  ROME AND LAZIO

Street-by-Street: Around Piazza Navona

No other piazza in Rome can rival the theatricality of The Torre dell’Orologio by
Piazza Navona. The luxurious cafés are the social centre Borromini (1648) formed part of
of the city, and day and night there is always something the Oratorio dei Filippini.
going on in the pedestrian area around the three 6 Chiesa Nuova
flamboyant Baroque fountains. The Baroque is also This church was rebuilt in
represented in many of the area’s churches. 1575 for the order founded
To discover an older Rome, walk along The Vatican by San Filippo Neri.
Via del Governo Vecchio to admire
the façades of Renaissance
buildings, browse in the
fascinating antiques shops
and lunch in one of the V I A D E L C O R A L L O
many trattorias.

At the
Oratorio
dei Filippini D E L L A N I M A
(1637), biblical V I A D E L G O V E R N O V E C C H I O V I A D I PA R I O N E
stories were
sung and the
congregation
responded with a
chorus – the origin
of the oratorio. V I A D I S A N TA M A R I A

Via del Governo
Vecchio preserves a
large number of fine
Renaissance houses. C O R S O V I T T O R I O E M A N U E L E I I PIAZZA DI

5 Santa Maria della Pace PASQUINO
This Renaissance church has
frescoes of the Four Sibyls
by Raphael and a refined
courtyard by Bramante.
The Baroque
portico is by
Pietro da Cortona.

Pasquino is a 3rd-century-BC
Hellenistic statue of Menelaus.
Romans have been hanging
satirical verses at its feet since
the 16th century.
Palazzo
D E L L A V A L L E
Palazzo Braschi, a late 18th-century Pamphilj P I A Z Z A D I
building designed by Cosimo Morelli, has a S A N T Ź A N D R E A
splendid balcony overlooking the piazza. Fontana del
Moro
Campo de’
0 metres 75 Fiori
Sant’Andrea della Valle, begun
0 yards 75 in 1591, has a flamboyant
Baroque façade flanked by
angels with outstretched wings
Key
by Ercole Ferrata. The church is
Suggested route the setting of the first act of
Puccini’s Tosca.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp573–6 and pp596–600

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Date 14th November 2012
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