Pigna (rione of Rome)
Pigna is the IX. Rione (neighborhood ) in Rome. It comprises the central Old Town area between Piazza Venezia and the Pantheon.
History
The name of the neighborhood comes from a huge antique pine cones (Italian Pigna ), is said to have closed according to legend, once the dome opening of the Pantheon. In fact, the sculpture was, however, used as a fountain in the adjacent Baths of Agrippa. She is now at the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican Museums.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a pine cone.
Cityscape
The neighborhood of Rome's medieval center is approximately square. It is in the north of the Via del Seminario, in the east of the Via del Corso, bounded on the south by the Via delle Botteghe Oscure and to the west by the Via di Torre Argentina. The southeastern corner is the Piazza Venezia, the southwest of Largo di Torre Argentina and the northwestern corner of the Piazza della Rotonda with the Pantheon. As a main traffic artery of the city district is intersected by the in 1881 created Via del Plebiscito from east to west.
The most important monuments are:
- The Pantheon
- The Baroque Jesuit Church of the Gesù
- St. Ignatius of Loyola in Campo Marzio, also a Jesuit church
- The Gothic Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva with Bernini's Elephant
- Palazzo Venezia
- Palazzo Doria Pamphili, the Galleria Doria Pamphili -
- The church of Santo Stefano del Cacco