Piazza Venezia

The Piazza Venezia is a square in the center of Rome. It is named after the adjacent Palazzo Venezia.

The course is situated at the foot of the Capitol and near the Roman Forum.

History

Even in the time of the Roman Republic was the place an important transport hub, since the Via Flaminia met the Porta Fontinalis in the Servian Wall. In the 15th century did the Venetian Cardinal Pietro Barbo, who later became Pope Paul II, building on the west side of the square to his palace, which was the Venetian embassy to the Holy See from 1567 to 1797. 1660 was north of the Palazzo Misciatelli built the Palazzo Bonaparte is known today, since Laetitia Ramolino the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte had their retirement home.

Its present form was received of the place as from 1885 on its south side the Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II built, which still dominates the Piazza today. For this was an entire neighborhood, including the monastery of Santa Maria in Aracoeli demolished. From 1911 the building of Assicurazioni Generali di Venezia, the design and dimensions of the Palazzo Venezia was built on the east side recorded and produced as a symmetry.

In the Fascist period of the Palazzo Venezia was the seat of government of Mussolini. From his balcony, the dictator gave numerous speeches to the people in the square.

Traffic

The Piazza Venezia is an important transportation hub. To the north, the Via del Corso closes in during the ancient Via Flaminia, which, however, is today largely pedestrianized. After West leads the Via del Plebiscito direction of St. Peter's Square and East Via Cesare Battisti rises up to the Quirinal. The Via del Teatro Marcello runs south to the Tiber and the Via dei Fori Imperiali to the Colosseum to the southeast. The latter two were designed as boulevards during the reign of Mussolini.

By 2006, the traffic was still controlled by a traffic policeman on a log of inspiration for numerous scenes in movies and commercials was. Since 16 March 2009, the so-called Pedana is back in service.

In Piazza Venezia, numerous bus lines intersect. Since 2006, the preliminary work for the construction of Line C of the Rome Metro, which will have a station at Piazza Venezia.