Monumenti di Roma – PROF. PIETRO MASSOLO

VILLA TORLONIA

Villa Torlonia is an important Roman villa with sorrounding gardens. The main entrance, located on Via Nomentana, is not the original one. After the widening of the main street the entrance was moved to the actual location and built in a way that resembled the Propylaea of the Acropolis in 1910. It is similar toContinue reading “VILLA TORLONIA”

THE GLAD STREET OF POPE SIXTUS V

The Glad Street of Pope Sixtus (1585-1590) begins in Piazza di Spagna on the top of the stairs. It was designed in order to convey the Pincian Hill to the Basilica of Santa Croce in Jerusalem. This avenue was built in order to improve the viability of the area and to help the pilgrims visit.Continue reading “THE GLAD STREET OF POPE SIXTUS V”

THE STADIUM OF DOMITIAN

The Stadium of Domitian, sometimes called improperly Circus Agonalis e Circus Alexandrinus, perfectly fits the area of Piazza Navona in Rome. Actually the buildings sorrounding the square were build above the ancient structures, which were used even as marble quarry of building materials, as it happened for the construction of Palazzo Braschi at the endContinue reading “THE STADIUM OF DOMITIAN”

PORTA PIA

Porta Pia is an important gate, famous, obviously, because of the Capture of Rome, happened on September 20th 1870. The Italian army broke entered Rome through this gate, defeated the troops of the Papal State and completed the Italian Unification process. The importance of Porta Pia lays beyond this event. The reason is that theContinue reading “PORTA PIA”

MADONNA ADVOCATA OF PALAZZO BARBERINI

Madonna Advocata (“Haghiosoritissa”) of Palazzo Barberini (11th-12th centuries AD) has all the typical characteristics of the Middle Ages sacred art. This artwork is related to Early Christian art, which is derivative of Plebeian Roman tradition. It is possible to observe that the folds of Jesus’s neck and the eyebrow of Mary are typical of theContinue reading “MADONNA ADVOCATA OF PALAZZO BARBERINI”

Mausoleum of Monte del Grano

The Mausoleum is known as “Monte del Grano” since the Middle Ages because it was built in the form of a bushel of wheat (“modius grani”: cone-shaped container used to measure wheat). It can’t be seen very easily from the outside because it lies under a hill in Parco XVII Aprile 1944 (Piazza dei Tribuni,Continue reading “Mausoleum of Monte del Grano”

VILLA TORLONIA

L’attuale ingresso di Villa Torlonia, situato lungo la Via Nomentana, non è quello originario, che era più avanzato. Proprio l’allargamento della strada ha comportato l’arretramento dell’ingresso e la realizzazione dei ‘propilei’ attuali, nel 1910.L’entrata principale, stilisticamente, è molto simile al Vittoriano, che infatti venne inaugurato nello stesso periodo (per la precisione nel 1911, cinquantenario dell’UnitàContinue reading “VILLA TORLONIA”

LA “STRADA FELICE” DI SISTO V

OBELISCO SALLUSTIANO E TRINITÀ DEI MONTI- Da qui comincia la STRADA FELICE di Sisto V (1585-1590), ideata per collegare il Pincio a S. Croce in Gerusalemme passando per S. Maria Maggiore. Questo “rettifilo” o “asse viario”, creato da Sisto V (al secolo Felice Peretti) per migliorare la viabilità e soprattutto per favorire il percorso deiContinue reading “LA “STRADA FELICE” DI SISTO V”