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254  ROME AREA B Y AREA

Street by Street: Via Veneto

The streets around Via Veneto, though within the walls of ancient Rome, contain little
dating from before the unification of Italy in 1861. With its hotels, restaurants, bars,
and travel agencies, the area is the center of 21st-century tourism in the way that
Piazza di Spagna was the hub of the tourist trade in the Rome of the 18th-century
Grand Tour. However, glimpses of the old city can be seen among the modern streets.
These include Santa Maria della Concezione, the church of the Capuchin friars,
whose convent once stood in its own gardens. In the 17th century,
Palazzo Barberini was built here for the powerful papal family. 3 Santa Maria della
Bernini’s Fontana del Tritone and Fontana delle Api have stood Concezione and
in Piazza Barberini since it was the meeting place of cart tracks Capuchin Crypt V I A L U D O V I S I
This church is best known
entering the city from surrounding vineyards. for the macabre collection
of bones in its crypt.

4 Fontana delle Api
Bernini’s drinking
fountain is decorated
with bees, emblem of
his Barberini patrons.

Barberini V I A V E N E T O
station P I A Z Z A B A R B E R I N I

5 Fontana del Tritone V I A D I S A N B A S I L I O
Bernini’s muscular sea god has
been spouting water skyward V I A D I S A N N I C O L A D A T O L E N T I N O
for over 350 years. V I A B A R B E R I N I

6 . Palazzo Barberini
Pietro da Cortona worked on
his spectacular ceiling fresco V I A X X S E T T E M B R E
The Triumph of Divine Provid-
ence between 1633 and 1639.

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Date 3rd September 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm