Piazza del Popolo, Villa Giulia, and Trying to Get Lost (Hits: 162)
Davide begun showing us the later city planning starting at the Piazza del Popolo, whence you can see the various latter-day axes created in an attempt to make logical some very illogical early city planning.
After the site visit, a few of us tried to get lost to no avail.
The Piazza was designed by Michaelangelo and of course has an obelisk in it. It's the first obelisk that Augustus Caesar brought to Rome after the Egyptian conquest. ...
I love this villa; absolutely stunning. It has a lot of classizing characteristics and new building were added on later to house the Etruscan museum (which of course we ...
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