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406  ROME AND LAZIO

Street-by-Street: Around the Pantheon

The maze of narrow streets around the Pantheon is a
mixture of lively restaurants and cafés, and some of
Rome’s finest sights. This is also the city’s financial and
political district, home to Parliament, government
offices and the Stock Exchange. The Pantheon itself,
with its awe-inspiring domed interior, has long been
a symbol of the city.
u Sant’Ignazio di Loyola
This church has a superb
illusionistic ceiling painted by r . Palazzo Doria Pamphilj
Andrea Pozzo in 1685. Among the masterpieces in
the art gallery of this vast
family palazzo is Salomé by
The Temple of Titian (above), painted
Hadrian now in 1516 .
forms the façade
of the Stock Via della Gatta
Exchange.
PIAZZA DI
SANT,IGNAZIO

Piazza della
Minerva centres on
Bernini’s outlandish
C O L L E G I O
sculpture of an P I A Z Z A D E L
elephant I G N A Z I O R O M A N O
V I A D E L S E M I N A R I O V I A D E L P I E D I M A R M O
supporting
VIA DI SANT,
an Egyptian VIA DELLA GATTA
obelisk.

R O T O N D A
P I A Z Z A D E L L A
PIAZZA V I A D E L G E S Ù V I A D E L P L E B I S C I T O
DELLA
MINERVA

The Pie’ di
Marmo
Santa Maria
Sopra Minerva
Palazzo Altieri incorporates the hovel
of an old woman who refused to allow
her house to be demolished when this
palace was built in the 17th century.

y . Pantheon e Gesù
The Pantheon, a temple to “all the gods”, Built in the late 16th century, this
is Rome’s best-preserved ancient building. Jesuit church served as a model
It was built in the 1st century AD, probably for the Order’s churches
to a design by Emperor Hadrian. throughout the world.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp573–6 and pp596–600

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