Via Roma
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Via Roma

The History of Rome in Fifty Streets

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Via Roma

The History of Rome in Fifty Streets

About this book

Why is the broad avenue leading to St. Peter's called the Street of Reconciliation? What does the Via dei Fori Imperiali--where the ancient imperial forums lie--have to do with Mussolini? How does the name Piazza Navona disclose what is hidden under the square?

Via Roma tells Rome's secrets one street at a time.

In this brilliant guide, Willemijn van Dijk takes readers across time and place as they wander along the roads of the ancient Italian capital. Street by street, fifty of them, van Dijk allows the stones to reveal their origins, their makers, the significance of their names, and the history they continue to echo. Caesars, popes, dictators, mafia dons, generals, philosophers, and artists. Architecture, ideas, romance, food, and intrigue. Rome is the eternal city to which all roads lead, and van Dijk unfolds the city's rich past through those roads.

Via Roma is an indispensable book for any and every inquisitive lover, and visitor, of the city along the Tiber.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. I. The Tiber
  7. II. Via Monte Tarpeo
  8. III. Via del Velabro
  9. IV. Via del Tempio di Giove
  10. V. Piazza dei Cinquecento
  11. VI. Via Appia Antica
  12. VII. Via di Monte Testaccio
  13. VIII. Piazza di Porta Maggiore
  14. IX. Piazza del Teatro di Pompeo
  15. X. Piazza della Suburra
  16. XI. Piazza Sallustio
  17. XII. Via del Piè di Marmo
  18. XIII. Piazza Augusto Imperatore (I)
  19. XIV. Via Mecenate
  20. XV. Via della VII Coorte
  21. XVI. Viale della Domus Aurea
  22. XVII. Piazza dei Protomartiri
  23. XVIII. Via Sacra
  24. XIX. Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
  25. XX. Viale Castrense
  26. XXI. Ponte Milvio
  27. XXII. Passetto di Borgo
  28. XXIII. Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta
  29. XXIV. Via Cola di Rienzo
  30. XXV. Via del Corso
  31. XXVI. Via dei Coronari
  32. XXVII. Via Giulia
  33. XXVIII. Piazza del Campidoglio
  34. XXIX. Campo de’ Fiori
  35. XXX. Via delle Quattro Fontane
  36. XXXI. Piazza della Rotonda
  37. XXXII. Via del Babuino
  38. XXXIII. Piazza Navona
  39. XXXIV. Piazza San Pietro
  40. XXXV. Vicolo del Divino Amore
  41. XXXVI. Piazza del Popolo
  42. XXXVII. Piazza di Trevi
  43. XXXVIII. Via delle Carrozze
  44. XXXIX. Piazza di Spagna
  45. XL. Piazza della Cancelleria
  46. XLI. Piazzale Garibaldi
  47. XLII. Piazza Colonna
  48. XLIII. Via dei Fori Imperiali
  49. XLIV. Via della Conciliazione
  50. XLV. Via Nicola Zabaglia
  51. XLVI. Largo 16 Ottobre 1943
  52. XLVII. Via Rasella
  53. XLVIII. Via Vittorio Veneto
  54. XLIX. Via Michelangelo Caetani
  55. L. Piazza Augusto Imperatore (II)
  56. The History of Rome in Five Walks
  57. Conclusion
  58. Notes
  59. Select Bibliography
  60. Index of Names and Sights