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The Via Giulia is a street of historical and architectural importance in Rome, Italy, which runs along the left (east) bank of the Tiber from Piazza San Vincenzo Pallotti, near Ponte Sisto, to Piazza dell'Oro. [1]
The Colloredo, who originated from Friuli Venezia Giulia, married the Countess Delia Maria Silvestri of Cingoli. Their son Fabio, born in 1705, married the Countess Teresa Flamini-Antici thus inheriting the original villa. The last member of the Colloredo family owning the property was the former-count Rudolf Colloredo who died in 1961.
Via dei Fori Imperiali, seen from the Colosseum looking northwest. Via dei Fori Imperiali is a road in the centre of the city that runs in a straight line from the Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum. The road, whose original name was "Via dell'Impero", was built during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.
St. Josemaría considered various options within the city of Rome. For example, the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Via Giulia, today the headquarters of the Roman Polyphonic Choir, or the Catacomb of St. Valentine, which is very close to Villa Tevere, the central headquarters of Opus Dei. But as these and other efforts did not come to fruition, the ...
This church is indissolubly linked to the history of the Archconfraternity of Siena in Rome, to which it still belongs. A sizable Sienese community in Rome was established at the end of the 14th century, and first used the church of Santa Maria in Monterone as its home before shifting to Santa Maria sopra Minerva (site of Catherine of Siena's tomb) around the middle of the 15th century.
The surviving parts of Borromini’s work include the façade to the Via Giulia, the Belvedere overlooking the Tiber and the decorative work in several rooms. [2] On the façade, the number of bays was increased from seven to eleven and at either end, tall inverted fluted pilasters were placed terminating in falcons heads, a reference to the ...
It has 4 floors with 6 windows each on the main facade along Via Giulia. [8] On the ground floor the windows are rectangular and equipped with grilles . [ 3 ] At the center of the ground floor there is a strongly tapered portal with at the center of the lintel a large bugna surmounted by the inscription cited above. [ 8 ]
San Filippo Neri (red arrow) and its Oratory (blue arrow) in their original context in the map of Rome of Giambattista Nolli (1748). The church is located in Rome's Regola rione, about halfway down Via Giulia (at the n. 134B), its facade facing west-southwest, in a neighborhood still devastated by the demolitions started in 1938 [1] for the construction of a road between ponte Mazzini bridge ...