Via Giulia ( Italian: Via Giulia ) - a street with a length of about 1.5 km in the historic center of Rome . Most of the street is in the Regola area, and only the northern part is in the Ponte area.
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History
Via Giulia was built by Bramante in the 16th century by order of Pope Julius II and was named after the customer. The street stretched from the Sisto Bridge , the only bridge across the Tiber, built after the fall of the Roman Empire and until the 19th century, to the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini . It was an elegant street on which palaces and houses began to appear, including for the Diaspora of the Florentines.
After the death of Julius II, mostly modest private houses began to be built on the street with gardens behind and, often, with shops in the facade. In the 1540s, the idea came up to build a bridge that would connect the then-built Palazzo Farnese with the villa Farnesin , located on the opposite bank of the Tiber, belonging to the same family. However, this ambitious project was not destined to be realized. Only an elegant arch through Via Giulia reminds of it.
Today, Via Giulia is known for its antique shops.
Facilities on and around Via Giulia
Churches :
- Spirito santo dei napoletani
- Santa Maria del Orazion e Morte
- Santa caterina da siena
- Sant'Eligio degli Orefici
- San filippo neri
- Santa maria del suffragio
- San biagio degli Armeni
- San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Palaces :
- Palazzo Spada and Spada Gallery
- Palazzo farnese
- Palazzo falconeri
- Palazzo cisterna
- Palazzo varese
- Palazzo ricci
- Palazzo del collegio spagnolo
- Palazzo donarelli
- Palazzo sacchetti
- Palazzo medici clarelli
Literature
- Roma e dintorni, Touring Club Italiano, 1965.
- Luigi Salerno; Luigi Spezzaferro e Manfredo Tafuri, Via Giulia: una utopia urbanistica del 500, Rome, Staderini, 1973.
Links
- The story of Via Giulia (Italian)